Tanzanian farmers will enjoy massive subsidies over fertilizer during the 2022/23 season after President Samia Suluhu Hassan launched a fertilizer subsidy programme yesterday. Agriculture minister Hussein Bashe says with the subsidy in place, a bag of DAP that was sold for TSh131,675 will now cost TSh70,000, while that of Urea, which used to fetch TSh124,714,...
Following the allocation of Tsh 150bn/- in the agriculture budget 2022/23 to subsidize fertilizer prices, the government plans to increase the amount of fertilizer in 2022/23 up to 500,000 tones. In the agricultural season of 2021/22, Tanzania utilized 360,000 tones of fertilizers. According to Dr. Ngailo, the Tanzania Fertilizers Regulatory Authority (TFRA), the farmer’s fertilizer...