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Joram Kazingo is a cassava farmer from Mvugwe village in Kigoma, Northwest Tanzania. Mvugwe is one of the 62 villages in Kasulu District with a population
The East African
Friday March 12 2021
A wetland. The encroached Malagarasi-Moyovosi wetland in Kigoma, Tanzania, covers over nine million hectares. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
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Owing to its size and importance to the ecosystem, the basin has been designated as a site of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetland.
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Over 100 families of herders and farmers from neighbouring countries have encroached on Malagarasi-Moyovosi wetland in Kasulu District, according to Tanzania authorities in the western region of Kigoma.
The wetland, which covers over nine million hectares encompassing five rivers and riparian wetlands, is the largest drainage system into Lake Tanganyika.
Bulombora distributes oil palm commercial seedlings
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Bulombora distributes oil palm commercial seedlings
BULOMBORA National Service has distributed 66, 000 improved commercial seedlings of oil palm, Tenera variety worth more than 400m/- to different district councils in Kigoma Region. The move is aimed at engaging farmers in a massive cultivation and transformation of oil palm-
-and end importation of edible oils in the country.
Bulombora National Service assistant farm manager Warrant Officer-II, Ombeni Mushi told Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) officials that disseminated seedlings are enough to plant 1,200 new acres in different districts in the region.
The district councils that have benefited from the improved commercial seedlings of oil palm, Tenera variety are Kigoma TC, Kigoma District Council, Uvinza district council and Kasulu District Council.