2023-06-06 18:16:51
With a population of 12 million households engaged in agriculture, Tanzania is “highly dependent” on fertilizer imports.
The deal involves the African Fertilizer Development Financing Facility (AFDF), managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the African Fertilizer and Agro-Industry Partnership (AFAP) in Tanzania. The project, which will operate in fourteen regions of this East African country, is financed to the tune of $2.5 million by the financial institution.
The aim is to increase agricultural productivity by facilitating timely access to fertilizers and their appropriate use by smallholders through a “functional, efficient and sustainable fertilizer supply chain”, says a statement released on Tuesday. at APA.
According to a government census carried out at the end of 2020, Tanzania has just over twelve million households where 65.3% of them “engaged in agricultural activities”. “Largely dependent on fertilizer imports”, the country’s demand is estimated at nearly 700,000 tons “of which regarding 418,883 tons must be imported to cover the deficit in local production, which amounts to 43,579 tons, with a balance carried forward of the previous season of 117,900 tonnes”.
For this project, scheduled from July 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, the implementation strategy will affect three main components: support for large agro-input distributors to enable them to access the credit guarantee facility, support aimed at increasing fertilizer availability and project management and coordination
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