Sugarcane has become a brisk business in the city of Dar es Salaam. Enjoy the pictorial scene

SUGARCANE harvesting season is taking its place and the business is booming in the city of Dar es Salaam. The growing of the crop is flourishing in some parts of the country especially in Morogoro region whose arable land has been blessed by the lord God. The region has a productive land that is suitable for the cultivation and not only for sugarcane, but for every type of a crop grown. It’s a suitable land indeed and a vast area in the region is grown in large scale plantation farms of Mtibwa and Kilombero basically for processing the plant in a factory for the production of sugar.

A tout in a Toyota DCM daladala bus plying between Mbunju and Kariakoo route, adjusting a bundle of sugarcane the bus has carried on its board, the bus is on its way to Kariakoo market in the city center. This photo was taken in Tegeta on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam city.

But the small scale farmers of the crop have to move to distant areas outside the growing regions in search of potential market where they could sell their crops. Dar es Salaam city is estimated to be receiving about 70 percent of the sugarcane grown from neighboring regions, and hawkers have found it more profitable.

A youth pulling a bundle of sugarcane on his way to the market.

Tricycles have become popular means of transport that are even much more cheaper.

A man selling pieces of sugarcane plus the smaller ones which have been peeled out and wrapped in a transparent paper bags on his trolley. The scene was captured at Buguruni-Ubungo daladala bus stop.

This sugarcane hawker was found along Sam-Nujoma Road near FGBF Church.

Sugarcane hawkers have found it more profitable in the city of Dar es Salaam.

A woman negotiates a price with a sugarcane seller.

A schoolboy passing along a trolley carrying sugarcanes for sale. Sugarcane sellers are mostly found at daladala bus stops, this scene was captured at a bus stand opposite fire brigade in Kariakoo area.

If you happen to walk around in most parts of the Dar es Salaam city suburbs nowadays, the sale of sugarcane has become so common and sellers have found it’s a brisk business indeed especially this time of its harvesting season. Hawkers can be seen selling this product in pieces arranged according to different sizes in trolleys. Most of them can be seen in daladala bus stands. They also sell the already peeled out pieces which are cut into smaller pieces of about 5 to 6 depending on their sizes and wrapped them in a transparent nylon paper bags and each one is sold for Tshs. 100/-. These ones are made to hang on their trolleys for display and customers to see and