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Tanzania News - The Citizen

Sat 12 May 7:53PM

Taha condemns commercial farm invasion
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:51

By Zephania Ubwani
The Citizen Bureau Chief

Arusha.The Tanzania Horticultural Association (Taha) has expressed concern over a recent invasion of commercial farms in Arumeru District, saying the grabbing was now threatening to kill the $385million (about Sh578billion) industry.

The body has also urged authorities to urgently resolve land crisis in the district, which has the largest concentration of horticulture farms and save the country from losing revenues from exports.

"The impact of the invasion of farms by the local community recently has caused irreparable losses as far as agricultural investment is concerned," Taha executive director, Ms Jacquiline Mkindi, said in a statement to The Citizen on Saturday. "Taha strongly condemns such kinds of deeds, which are against the law and will, therefore, not keep silent about them," she pointed out, insisting that the association would not spare anything to protect investors.


Land ownership was the centre of by-election campaigns in January in the constituency, which has a large concentration of former settler farms now targeted by invaders. Nearly half a dozen farms have been invaded. Soon after the election, there has been a wave of invasion of several commercial farms in Arumeru District, especially in the eastern half of the district and the surrounding villages.

Many believe that the invasion is politically motivated. Some residents say the invasion has been prompted by the shortage of land and want unused farms sub-divided for agricultural purposes.
They want the estates sub-divided among them, claiming that they had no land to cultivate while others claimed that some farms have been left idle for a long time and they wanted to use them. Others wanted access roads and water as well as grazing land for their animals.
Ms Mkindi said the recent invasion of the commercial farms was a serious setback to efforts to promote agribusiness in the area and tap the great potential of horticultural sub sector for the national economy.
Horticulture industry earns Tanzania more than $385million (Sh578billion) a year. The amount is equivalent to 40 per cent of the total export from the agricultural sector and about nine per cent of the country's total export.
The industry targets to generate between $1 billion and $2 billion per year in the next three to five years and increase employment by 55 per cent. More than 85 per cent of investors in commercial horticulture in the country are concentrated in northern Tanzania, especially in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions where many farms have been opened in the last few years.

According to Taha, horticulture industry has recorded between nine and 10 per cent growth per year, making it one of the fastest growing sub sectors of the economy

 

Arusha.The Tanzania Horticultural Association (Taha) has expressed concern over a recent invasion of commercial farms in Arumeru District, saying the grabbing was now threatening to kill the $385million (about Sh578billion) industry.

The body has also urged authorities to urgently resolve land crisis in the district, which has the largest concentration of horticulture farms and save the country from losing revenues from exports.

"The impact of the invasion of farms by the local community recently has caused irreparable losses as far as agricultural investment is concerned," Taha executive director, Ms Jacquiline Mkindi, said in a statement to The Citizen on Saturday. "Taha strongly condemns such kinds of deeds, which are against the law and will, therefore, not keep silent about them," she pointed out, insisting that the association would not spare anything to protect investors.
Land ownership was the centre of by-election campaigns in January in the constituency, which has a large concentration of former settler farms now targeted by invaders. Nearly half a dozen farms have been invaded. Soon after the election, there has been a wave of invasion of several commercial farms in Arumeru District, especially in the eastern half of the district and the surrounding villages.

Many believe that the invasion is politically motivated. Some residents say the invasion has been prompted by the shortage of land and want unused farms sub-divided for agricultural purposes.
They want the estates sub-divided among them, claiming that they had no land to cultivate while others claimed that some farms have been left idle for a long time and they wanted to use them. Others wanted access roads and water as well as grazing land for their animals.
Ms Mkindi said the recent invasion of the commercial farms was a serious setback to efforts to promote agribusiness in the area and tap the great potential of horticultural sub sector for the national economy.
Horticulture industry earns Tanzania more than $385million (Sh578billion) a year. The amount is equivalent to 40 per cent of the total export from the agricultural sector and about nine per cent of the country's total export.
The industry targets to generate between $1 billion and $2 billion per year in the next three to five years and increase employment by 55 per cent. More than 85 per cent of investors in commercial horticulture in the country are concentrated in northern Tanzania, especially in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions where many farms have been opened in the last few years.

According to Taha, horticulture industry has recorded between nine and 10 per cent growth per year, making it one of the fastest growing sub sectors of the economy

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