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Livestock feeding management systems and impact on environment

Livestock feeding management systems in the world is changing in response to population pressure, resource endowment and marketing opportunities. There is a decrease on grazing lands with the increase in cropping land to produce food for the increasing mouths. Parallel to this, there has been an intensification of for...

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The effects of unavailability of technical storage facilities to the marketing of fruits and vegatables for economic development in Morogoro rural and urbarn districts

Fruits and vegetables are basically horticultural products, which deteriorate fast after harvest. They are characterized by high moisture contents and tenderness. These fruits and vegetables had every low profile in Morogoro region in the past, but since 1998s they are increasingly becoming strategic products because...

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Aggregate export and food crop supply response in Tanzania

Tanzania is among the many African countries that have engaged in agricultural liberalization since the mid-1980s, in the hope that reforms, which introduce price incentives and efficient marketing, will encourage producers to respond. This paper assesses that claim by examining the supply response of agriculture out...

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King cotton under sovereignty: The private marketing chain for cotton in Western Tanzania, 1997/98

Examines the emergence of a private sector marketing chain for cotton in Tanzania in the period 1994/95-1997/98, based on field work conducted between June and September 1997. It embodies a description of the background to the current marketing system, cotton’s changing place in the Tanzanian macro-economy, the divisi...

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Limping towards a ditch without a crutch: the Brave New World of Tanzanian Cotton Marketing Cooperatives

Describes developments in cotton marketing cooperatives in Tanzania’s major cotton growing area between 1991 and 1997. During this period cooperatives underwent voluntarisation, lost state and donor financial support and (from 1995) had to face strong competition from private cotton buyers/ginners. After summarising t...

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Sugarcane production, processing and marketing in Tanzania

Sugarcane is one of the important food and commercial crops of Tanzania. Its

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Of saviours and punks: the political economy of the Nile perch marketing chain in Tanzania

The paper is a fieldwork-based case study of the commodity chain for the Nile Perch fish from Lake Victoria, Tanzania. This fish first began apperaring in significant numbers in the lake in the early 1980s and within a few years a large artisanal fishery developed around it. Commodity chain analysis focuses on how a c...

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The poor relation : a political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania

Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the ‘commodity chain’ for dagaa. That is, it is a study of how dagaa is produced, marketed, distri...