Tanzania is Africa's leading rice producer

Tamrogoro's administrative secretary, Emmanuel Kolobelo, recently told the media that the country intends to overtake Madagascar as Africa's leading rice producer by implementing a rice-growing strategy, the Guardian reported on November 30.
in order to achieve this goal, the Government of Tan has carried out project cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
the project was implemented with the assistance of Venezuela and North Korea, which sent experts to help improve rice cultivation and storage methods.
the first phase of the project in Morogoro in 2016 with the aim of increasing rice production.
, rice production has increased from 2.5 tonnes per hectare to 5 tonnes per hectare, and rice production across the region has increased from 500,000 tonnes to 800,000 tonnes.
after the success of the first phase of the project, the Tanfang side proposed the implementation of the second phase of the project, the aid side agreed, aimed at reducing the pre-harvest losses of rice, in order to stimulate farmers to grow rice in large quantities.
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