dpg psd trade delegation to mbeya region, 19-22 march 2013
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DPG PSD Trade Delegation to Mbeya Region, 19-22 March 2013. FÖRDELNING PRODUKTIVA TILLGÅNGAR. EDUCATION. GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE. MARKETS. HEALTH. SKILLED HUMAN RESOURCES. INFRASRUCTURE. G R O W T H. RULES AND REGULATIONS. FINANCIAL SERVICES. MACRO ECONOMY. PEACE AND - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
DPG PSD Trade Delegation to Mbeya Region, 19-22 March 2013
FÖRDELNING PRODUKTIVA TILLGÅNGARGROWTH
MARKETS
FINANCIAL SERVICES
SKILLED HUMAN RESOURCES
RULES AND REGULATIONS
INFRASRUCTURE
VOICE
HEALTH
PEACE AND SECURITY
MACRO ECONOMY
DEMOCRATICGOVERNANCE
EDUCATION
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE
LAND
FÖRDELNING PRODUKTIVA TILLGÅNGAR
PRIVATESECTOR
IN MBEYA
MARKETS
FINANCIAL SERVICES
SKILLED HUMAN RESOURCES
RULES AND REGULATIONS
INFRASRUCTURE
VOICE
HEALTH
PEACE AND SECURITY
MACRO ECONOMY
DEMOCRATICGOVERNANCE
EDUCATION
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE
LAND
Mbeya Region - great potential
• Wonderful climate – anything grows• Active agricultural sector• Positive enthusiastic people
• Part of SAGCOT • New airport• New mines opening up• Ripe for private sector development
International & Local Business
• Working together• Promoting the area• Interested in the smallholder• Providing access to new markets• Offering new techniques• Undertaking good advocacy
• Mbeya Business Forum
Rungwe Avocado Company
• 3500 out growers• Provide transport & pickers for the crop• Promoting local growers• Farmers can make Tsh 7 million per hectare• Price per kg of avocadoes has increased from
290 Tsh in 2012 to 345 Tsh in 2013.
Raising quality – inputting new techniques & varieties
• Complying with international standards• Access to international market – 50
tonnes M&S and UK supermarkets
2012 2013 2014?02468
10121416
Number of containers exported
Coffee Farmers Alliance TanzaniaAim: Increased income for 25 000 coffee farmers
• Co-funding – International Coffee Partners (ICP) together with donors
• Knowledge and experience from private sector – ICP provide market information
• Sustainability beyond aid – business interest from private parters
• Not-for-profit implementor – Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung in cooperation with farmer organizations
• Provide a choice for growers
Access to better varieties – a better quality product
Access to training – field farmer schools
Improved milling
Access to international auctions
Sapphire Maize Storage project
• AGRA-funded and now DfID SAGCOT programme through Technoserve
• Local government provided new doors and pallets for storing grain.
• Agronomy training provided• Joint marketing• Assistance in finding markets for local community• Credit through warehouse receipt system• Promoting saving through SACCOS
New methods, techniques & markets introduced to farmers groups
Business Skills training
• Business acumen lacking• Extension workers – not up to date and need
to be re-energised• New techniques needed– TAPP, farmer field
schools• Access to buying inputs – more local
distributors needed.
Government interaction with private sector still needs to improve
• More facilitation – less control• Stable consistent policies• Regular ongoing communication
•ENABLING not DISABLING – over-regulation & duplicate regulation by multiple bodies is cited
More support for SME’s needed
• LGA’s inconsistent in their approach – no cohesion – different fees charged & rules applied
• TCCIA one stop shop for SME’s• NTB system for harassment of SME’s• Farmer associations often politicised and not
representing the farmers• Middle men still taking the lion’s share
Access to Finance
• Still a critical issue• Pride Rural Finance Window• Average loan Tsh 300,000 for 4 - 9 months
@2.5% per month.• 5-6% default rate• More prevention work needed
Infrastructure
• Border post – Tunduma
• Traffic chaos – long queues, congestion, lack of parking
• Traffic has doubled in the last 2 years. • All fuel to Zambia, copper from Zambia & DRC
goods pass through Tunduma • TMEA One Stop Border Post is underway – still
in planning and design stage.
TAZARA – past its sell by date?
..or the way forward?