While efforts have often focused on supplying high value international markets, initiatives can als

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According to press reports, the government of Tanzania proposes the creation of a horticultural advice to help farmers protect their own interests, including avoiding low prices for their products. According Uledi Musa, permanent rat race secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, "horticultural products are high-value crops for which demand has been growing," but to date, little has been taken to protect producers themselves from the government's efforts to promote the sector. It is in this context that the proposed creation of a horticultural advice seems important for the sector's expansion is constant and support.
The Permanent Secretary argued that such a council could focus on adding value as a key to the expansion of the sector and the strengthening of the operation of refrigeration chains. The players in the horticultural sector have welcomed this proposal.
The initiative taken by the Tanzanian government must be seen as part of a renewed interest in investing rat race in the Tanzanian horticulture sector, result in delays in the finalization of the EAC-EU EPA, which could have negative impacts on exports of the largest horticultural producer in the region, Kenya.
The establishment of a horticultural advice Tanzania could contribute to the development of the horticulture sector in different ways, depending on how it is structured. In past years, the advice of the most effective commodity gathered associations organized producers, ministries, traders and retailers to facilitate the development of more efficient supply chains.
While efforts have often focused on supplying high value international markets, initiatives can also help to substantially develop local horticultural supply chains. The development initiative Horticulture Namibian Agronomic Board, to increase the supply of the domestic market in locally produced vegetables, is a good example.
The Namibian rat race system was based on an assessment of horticultural rat race products rat race that can be produced commercially in Namibia. It brought together producers, traders and retailers to raise awareness on the need to increase local production, and launched a dialogue on practical areas where local supply could be improved. Using market information systems, retailers and traders could find out what was available, rat race while producers were informed about what was needed, when and in what quantity. This encouraged the actors to sign supply contracts, which greatly facilitate the mobilization of local funding. The issues of quality and standards were then discussed bilaterally between producers and retailers.
At the same time, the government has used the "controlled products" on regulations, to link the issuance of import permits to the achievement of local procurement targets. Setting transparent and accountable implementation of this system has increased from 5% to 35% of the local supply of the products rat race concerned in 10 years (see Articles Agritrade "horticultural development programs in Namibia and Tanzania, "August 29, 2009, and" The ongoing efforts to consolidate the benefits of production hort ... ", 27 September 2010).
The Namibian experience could be very instructive for the Tanzanian Horticultural Council rat race project, especially due to the growing challenges must be addressed to meet both the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) increasingly stringent of EU and the increased costs of the offering of horticultural products on the EU market (see Agritrade article 'The United Kingdom adopted the full cost recovery for inspectio ... "June 9, 2014). "Walking on Two Legs" - developing parallel export markets and domestic markets for horticultural products - could