Tanzania Government has reaffirmed her commitment to persue a positive policy towards agricultre, this was revealled by the Prime Minister Mizengo Pindi last week while touring Songea region. While addressing Songea residents, the Prime Minster reiterated his directives to Municipal and District Directors in country to direct resources towards purchasing tractors instead of luxury vehicles.
In this respect, Tanzania should study and make a lesson from the agricultural policy persued by the European after the second world war. Europe was in high shortage of food after the war, and in many parts of Europe food was rationed to people. In order to be self satisfactory in food production, the Europeans undertook two policy measures, namely
1. Ensured the market for the farmers that whaterver they produce will be purchased
2. Ensured stability of price of the agricultural products produced by farmers
These policies and others diversified risks embeded in agriculture through assuring the farmers that these risks will be taken by the Governments, the results were spectacular development and high productivity in the agricultural sector in Europe.
Surely Tanzania should make a reason out of Europe agriculture policy because the policy of getting more tractors and fertiliser utilisation will result into mass production of agricultural products like maize. If measures are not taken by Tanzania Government to ensure market and price stability to farmers, the results could be diverstating. If in one season farmers' produce will not be purchased or if price will be lpersistent ower prices for their produce next season no one will ever invest in more production.
Please comments are invited, what Tanzania should do as a precautionary measure?
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