January 28, 2010 Daily News (Tanzania) Finnigan Wa Simbeye
Value addition through the manufacture of clothes using handlooms should be the top priority for Tanzanian cotton stakeholders growers, buyers and ginners, President Jakaya Kikwete has advised.
Most of the Indian clothes are actually done by families of cotton farmers, said President Kikwete, after visiting Al Adawi Company Limiteds ginnery and cotton farms during his recent tour of Maswa District in Shinyanga Region.
He implored local cotton growers to emulate their Indian counterparts, saying that exporting raw cotton was not profitable due to fluctuating commodity prices in the world market. Unlike unstable prices of unprocessed goods, finished products command higher and more stable prices.
During his tour of Maswa District, President Kikwete handed over five Massey Ferguson tractors and 10 power tillers to smallholder cotton farmers in the district, courtesy of a loan facility by Al Adawi Company Limited.
Al Adawi said his company, which bought a ginnery from the American agro firm Cargill last year, plans to build the capacity of cotton farmers in Shinyanga Region, by providing them with modern farming skills, tractors, power tillers and farm inputs.
Al Adawi said his company plans to supply farmers with 100 tractors by the end of next year, with funding from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Securitys Agro-Input Fund. The firm also plans to install a thread-making plant and provide handlooms on loan to farmers for cloth making.
My Take:
1. Huyu jamaa alitajwa na Ngeleja kama mmiliki wa Dowans almost 2 weeks earlier kabla JK hajaruka kimanga kutomfahamu mmiliki wa Dowans. Lakini it turns out kumbe JK amewahi kukutana na huyu jamaa ana kwa na in official terms. Hii sintomfahamu inazua maswali mengi kwamba JK kuna kitu anakificha.
2. Hii habari iliandikwa kwenye gazeti la serikali Daily news, sasa sijui ni kwa nini waandishi wetu hawatukumbushi.
3. Je hii ruka ruka ya JK sio uthibitisho wa jarida la African intelligence kuhusu Al Adawi kumpa JK $2 million kwa kampeni 2005.
Hata mimi nashangaa! Huyo huyo Al Adawi alikana kuimiliki Dowans wakati alipohojiwa na M.M.Mwanakijiji lakini majuzi amekuja anasema yeye ndiye mmiliki wa Dowans na waandishi wa habari hawamuulizi! Why?
I see peoples' inteligence on the originator of this thread...I belive the truth will get us free. AM DISAPOINTED WITH THE CURRENT OCCUPANT OF MAGOGONI
Ule ni mchezo wa kuigiza tuuu hawana lolote ridhiwan kikwete tanzania sio nch ya kifalme tuntkuangalia tu unavyo jiusisha na serikali hakika uwez kuwa rais wa tanzania jipange sehem nyingine