Dar es Saalam, Feb. 16 -- Banana production is set to increase in Tanzania if farmers use seedlings produced by way of tissue culture currently being popularised in Zanzibar and some parts of Mainland Tanzania.
The initiative is championed by a Tanzanian company called Kilimo Organo Limited to increase raw materials for local industries, agricultural exports and farmers' disposable incomes.
Kilimo Organo Managing Director Ammar Mussaji told reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday that he was confident Tanzania would become a big exporter of bananas and pineapples if farmers embraced the inventiveness that had been introduced to boost agricultural production in line with the national agro-industrialisation strategy.
"If our people embrace th...