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Role of information technology in agricultureThis paper highlights the issues related to the role of information technology (IT) in agriculture with emphasis on developing countries, especially Africa and Tanzania in particular. It summarises the importance of information in generating and disseminating agricultural technologies. The paper further focuses on cur...
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Tanzania's agriculture development towards the 21st centuryAgriculture has always been the backbone of the economy in Tanzania, accounting for about 57% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), over 80% of employment and contributing to more than 70% of export earnings. The importance of the agricultural sector is envisaged to co ntinue into the present (21st ) centry. This paper...
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The agricultural technology transfer fund of the association for strengthening agricultural research in East and Centra Africa (ASARECA)Publication
The centrally administered agricultural research fund of the Department of Research Development Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives TanzaniaPublication
The effects of unavailability of technical storage facilities to the marketing of fruits and vegatables for economic development in Morogoro rural and urbarn districtsFruits 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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The promotion of animal traction and weeding technologies in Mbozi, TanzaniaPublication
The Socio-economic dynamics of farmers' management of local plant genetic resources: a frame work for analysis with examples from a Tanzania caseDiscusses the debate around farmers' management of local plant genetic resources. It seek to develop a theoretical framework for analysing farmers management of plant genetic resources using examples from fieldwork carried out in 1995-1997 among farmers in Tanzania with a focus on the 1994/95 growing season. The study...
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The use of computer simulation to assess the suitability of RWH technology intervention in Semi-arid TanzaniaExperimental research into soil water management, whether on a research station or on farmers’ fields, is necessarily restricted to specific sites over limited time interval. Meaningful extrapolation is problem. With this in mind, the SUA –Newcastle RWH project pursued a twin-track approach in which the experiment eff...
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Value adding through Agro-processing in Tanzanias' liberalised economic environment: some thoughts for the new millenniumThe paper presents a brief review of Tanzania’s agro-industrial development since independence and during the period of a centrally planned economy. The main focus was on import substitution industries and sometimes import/export dependant industries, which did not perform well due to either under capacity utilisation...
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2020 Vision network for East AfricaPublication
A 1992 Social Accounting matrix (SAM) for TanzaniaPublication
Aggregate export and food crop supply response in TanzaniaTanzania 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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Changing lifestyles in farming societies of Sukumaland: Kwimba district, TanzaniaThis paper examines the changing lifestyle in rural Sukumaland. A case study of two villages in Kwimba District is used to demonstrate the nature and extent of the change in life patterns and resource control at the household level. Farming in Sukumaland constitutes an economic livelihood and a social identity. Almost...
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Coming full circle: agriculture, non-farm activities and the resurgence of out-migration in Njombe district, TanzaniaThis report presents the findings of research carried out between December 1996 and December 1997 in two villages in Lushoto District which formed a part of the Beyond the Shamba research project undertaken by the Institute of Resource Assessment of the University of Dar es Salaam and the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden,...