The government has said that, it has come up with new strategic measures
which would ensure the production of cotton cash crop which currently is being
produced with 300,000 kg per hectare of land to 600,000 kgs with the start of
2018/19 fiscal year. The deputy minister for agriculture Dr. Mary Mwanjelwa has
said yesterday in parliament that, the government is in plan to increase cotton
selling stations a move that would encourage many farmers into devoting
themselves in cotton growing.
Dr. Mary Mwanjelwa
She also noted that, there will be prompt payments
to be made to farmers who takes their produce to cooperative unions for sale,
unlike before farmers are desperate when are borrowed and paid later a move
that discouraged many from growing zones. The deputy minister was responding to
the question which was earlier raised by Itilima legislator Njalu Daudi Silanga
(CCM) who wanted to know strategies put in place by the government in order to
save cotton growing in the country. The minister further noted that, the
government in collaboration with stakeholders in the ministry has put in place
to do many research activities of the plant so that with the industrialization
program going on in the country, industrialists would benefit as cotton has a
variety of use for industrial processing. As the crop takes more time to
mature, hence farmers should also be enlightened on the basic use of good
agricultural practices in order t increase productivity.
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