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Tanzania Coffee Board draws up 10-year strategy


Tanzania Daily News

August 14, 2012

Mosh — TANZANIA Coffee Industry Development Strategy (2011 - 2021) has laid out proposed implementation framework which is intended to achieve several goals including improvement of the crop.

The Director General of Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB), Eng Adolph Kumburu, said to live up to the strategy, there must be a close collaboration among all stakeholders in the coffee sector.

Eng Kumburu stated that coffee growers and their organisations stand central to the coffee development strategy as farmers would need to be engaged fully. "They will only do so if they are confident that they will receive a fair share of revenues for their coffee through improved efficiency of the value chain and that any investment in improved production and quality will materialise in better incomes,"he said.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, can ensure that the coffee industry strategy aims are aligned with the National Agricultural Policy, presented and discussed at the national level.

Eng Kumburu said the ministry will also play a key role by supporting a favourable environment to coffee growing, in the form of taxes, regulations, agricultural policy and by possibly supporting the implementation of the strategy through various means, such as financial support, subsidies for coffee inputs and advocacy to international donors.

He stated that the role of TCB was central to the implementation as it was expected to lead overall coordination of the strategy implementation and ensure proper dialogue among all actors of the industry, a multi-stakeholder process. By so doing, he added, TCB will ensure that shared functions are implemented as envisioned in the Coffee Act and new coffee regulations.

According to Eng Kumburu, TCB will also provide necessary favourable business conditions to all stakeholders and will seek to optimise the functioning of the value chain and ultimately, the role of TCB will also be to provide advisory services and promote Tanzanian coffees in existing and new markets.

He said Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) will play a key role in the implementation of the strategy by developing adapted technology through research and ensuring its dissemination to all stakeholders, particularly, farmers.

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