Approximately
80% percent of Tanzanians are employed by the agriculture sector plays, which
accounts for half of the national income and three quarters of the merchandise
exports in the country.
The
majority staples that are produced by Tanzania include maize, sorghum, millet,
rice, wheat, pulses (mainly beans), cassava, potatoes, bananas and plantains
with the bulk of the country’s export crops being composed of coffee, cotton,
cashew nut, tobacco, sisal, pyrethrum, tea, cloves, horticultural crops, oil
seeds, spices and flowers.
Tractors and other tillage
machinery are used as entry points to build the needed capacity for smallholder
farmers to access other technologies. In the process of using tractors, farmers
are facilitated by the government and other stakeholders to develop interest
and capacities to access other mechanised farm implements beyond ploughing and
tilling, inputs and post harvest technologies.
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