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\nAs New Year 2021 enters, over 100.600 smallholders in the country will earn USD 493.500 grants to grain and vegetable seeds to help them produce sustainable food.<\/p>\n
\nAs New Year 2021 enters, over 100.600 smallholders in the country will earn USD 493.500 grants to grain and vegetable seeds to help them produce sustainable food.<\/p>\n
By way of its latest ‘Better Farms, Better Lives’ initiative, Bayer, a life science-oriented multinational corporation, will be running the programme for the next 12 months, beginning this month and covering 25 districts in Mainland Tanzania.<\/p>\n
Bayer will support its existing pledge to help smallholder farmers in Africa by providing them with free hybrid maize and vegetable seeds. <\/p>\n
The boost, according to Bayer Tanzania manager Frank Wenga, is intended to help them fight the impact of the global Covid 19 pandemic that triggered a series of global food shortages in the previous year.<\/p>\n
Liam Condon, The President of Bayer’s Crop Science Division, said, “To provide food security for billions of people smallholder farmers are vital , but the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic puts additional challenges on their ability to grow food for their communities and beyond.”<\/p>\n
Also aimed at supporting more than 700,000 small-scale farmers across the African continent, Bayer’s ‘Better Farms, Better Lives’ initiative also aims to provide market access assistance to farmers in line with Bayer’s overall aspiration to create a world where ‘Health for All, Hunger for None’ exists.<\/p>\n
Bob Shuma, Executive Director of Tanzania Seed Trade Association, initiated this particular food security programme at Bayer Life Science Tanzania offices in Njiro, Arusha.<\/p>\n
The programme is being implemented in a variety of countries throughout Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zimbabwe, while its flag is in Arusha. <\/p>\n
The initiative focuses on the provision of assistance to small farmers in the face of additional challenges that the coronavirus pandemic may pose.<\/p>\n
To ensure full impact, Bayer will work and extend its partnerships with governments, recognised NGOs and local organisations; increase access to agronomy services and knowledge; reinforce established and new value chain partnerships and further expand value chain partnerships across Africa.<\/p>\n
Bayer focuses on giving small farmers the resources they need to address immediate challenges, building their resilience for the future and ensuring that the Covid-19 pandemic does not transform from a health crisis into a hunger crisis, said Klaus Eckstein, head of Africa, Crop Science Division.<\/p>\n
In Tanzania, Bayer will collaborate in a 200-ton distribution of Bayer’s Decalb corn and a 100 gramme mark of seeds of vegetables, all worth US$ 493,500 to 25 districts like Meru, Songea, Iringa, and Kudoa, with Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and the Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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