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Enabling Smallholder Access to Finance in United Republic of Tanzania - TCP/URT/3501

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Rice, the second most important crop in the United Republic of Tanzania, is mostly grown by farmers as a cash crop for local and regional markets. Despite this, farmers operate largely at subsistence level, cultivating between 0.25 and 2 acres on average countrywide, and even less in the project area of Kiroka. The potential to improve production is hampered by low productivity, poor coordination among farmers, poor marketing strategies, and a lack of knowledge and access to investment capital. The project responded to these by increasing the productivity levels of smallholder paddy producers through capacity-building, the introduction of high-yield seed varieties and other inputs, water management practices, the introduction of labour-saving technologies, and good post-harvest management practices and by improving the managerial capacity of smallholder farmers’ organizations

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