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Tanzania’s agro-ecological <strong>and</strong> population settlement characteristics, whichpermitt expansion <strong>of</strong> “extensive” cotton production, have so far protected itfrom the need to take the type <strong>of</strong> radical measures that Ug<strong>and</strong>a took for <strong>in</strong>putcredit provision. However, if yields beg<strong>in</strong> to fall as a result <strong>of</strong> decl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g soil fertility(or possibly one day to <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g pest pressure) <strong>and</strong> if it wants to morefully realize its potential, the country may need to consider mov<strong>in</strong>g to a morecoord<strong>in</strong>ated approach.180 LABASTE, POULTON, AND TSCHIRLEY

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