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Indicated that Tanzania did not invest enough in agriculture to drive the industry to do the capacity of the country.
Veteran politician and former Minister of Agriculture and Food Security in the Government of the Fourth, Stephen Wasira said this, adding that there is a connection directly between agriculture and industry because agriculture produces raw materials for feed mills and factories had, manufactured goods or promote agricultural inputs.
In fiscal year 2017/18, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries requesting Parliament kuiidhinishia Sh267.86 billion for recurrent and development projects.
Of this amount, Sh156 billion is for development expenditure and Sh103 billion is recurrent.
Wasira said Tanzania did not proceed as industrialized agriculture will continue to be back as it was many years ago.
He said something bigger kinachokwamisha agricultural growth in the country is poor technology.
"Our agriculture is facing a poor technology, for example, you see people are still caught using hook. It was supposed to begin fishing using modern boats to increase the yield of fish, on the same farm, "said Wasira.
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