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Information and Communication Technology, appropriate road networks;
and consistent policies and regulations. In addition, the private sector
should be facilitated to improve delivery, and enabled to thrive and be
competitive by facilitating access to affordable input and output factors
nationally and internationally.
(Footnotes)
1 While contract farming especially in cotton seem to have challenges, I would have identified
it as an investment opportunity particularly for investors in cotton ginneries and textile mills;
this opportunity will materialize now the government is reforming contract farming regulatory
framework that would promote a win-win situation for all textile value chain stakeholders; there
will be opportunities for contract farming in other enterprises like horticulture, sunflower for edible
oil, and dairy farming in many parts of Tanzania including Simiyu.
2 In 2010, Tanzania’s Textile and clothing exports reached a total value of USD 140,7 m. Cotton
textiles (fibre, yarns and woven fabrics) accounted for USD 100,4 m (71%) followed by other
vegetable textile fibres (HS cat. 53) with USD 12,7 m (9%) and twines, cordage, rope, cable and
nets (USD 9 m, 6 %). Total garment exports amounted to USD 11,6 m of which USD 8.7 m
were knitted and UDS 2,9 m consisted of woven garment representing a mere 8.2 % of total T
& C exports.
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