{"id":20988,"date":"2021-01-01T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=20988"},"modified":"2021-01-01T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T19:37:28","slug":"major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","title":{"rendered":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain and vegetable seeds\u2019 grants worth US$ 493,500 to assist them in sustainable food production.<\/p>\n

Through its new \u201cBetter Farms, Better Lives\u201d initiative, Bayer, a life-science oriented multinational company will run the programme for the next 12 months, starting this month and it will cover 25 districts in the Mainland Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Bayer will complement its current commitment of supporting smallholder farmers in Africa, by providing them with free hybrid corn and vegetable seeds.<\/p>\n

The boost, according to Bayer Tanzania Manager Frank Wenga, is meant to assist them to combat effects of global Covid- 19 pandemic, which caused series of global food shortage crisis in the previous year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmallholder farmers are essential in providing food security to billions of people, but the on-going Covid-19 pandemic is placing extra challenges on their ability to produce food for their communities and beyond,\u201d said Liam Condon, President of Bayer\u2019s Crop Science Division.<\/p>\n

Also targeting to assist more than 700,000 small scale farmers across the African continent, Bayer\u2019s \u2018Better Farms, Better Lives,\u2019 programme also aims at providing assistance with market access to the growers in line with Bayer\u2019s overall aspiration in building a world, where there is \u2018Health for All, Hunger for None\u2019.<\/p>\n

This special food security programme was launched at Bayer Life Science Tanzania offices in Njiro, Arusha by the Executive Director of the Tanzania Seed Trade Association Bob Shuma.<\/p>\n

The programme, though flagged off in Arusha, will be implemented in eight countries across the continent, including, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

The initiative focuses on providing smallholder farmers with the assistance needed to address the additional challenges they may be facing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

To ensure maximum impact, Bayer will work and expand its partnerships with governments, recognised NGOs and local organisations; to provide accelerated access to agronomy services and knowledge; scale up existing and new value chain partnerships and further expand value chain partnerships across Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn line with our vision \u2018Health for All, Hunger for None\u2019, Bayer is focusing on providing smallholder farmers with the help they need to address immediate challenges, while building resilience for the future, and working to ensure the Covid-19 pandemic does not turn from a health crisis to a hunger crisis,\u201d noted Klaus Eckstein, Head of Africa, Crop Science Division.<\/p>\n

In Tanzania, Bayer will collaborate with Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and with the Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT) to distribute 200 metric tonnes of Bayer\u2019s Dekalb corn and 100 gramme of Seminis vegetables seeds brand all valued at US $493,500 to 25 districts among them Meru, Songea, Iringa and Kondoa.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether with partners, we aim to multiply the social and economic impacts of smallholder farmers in tackling poverty and hunger, improving health and livelihoods and, ultimately, spurring economic development for their families, communities and nations,\u201d added Bayer East Africa Limited Managing Director, Laurent Perrier.<\/p>\n

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition.<\/p>\n

Its products and services are designed to benefit people by supporting efforts to overcome the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the group aims at increasing its earning power and creating value through innovation and growth.<\/p>\n

Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development, and the Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world.<\/p>\n

In fiscal year 2019, the group employed around 104,000 people and had sales of 43.5 billion euros. Capital expenditures amounted to 2.9 billion euros, research and development expenses to 5.3 billion euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain and vegetable seeds\u2019 grants worth US$ 493,500 to assist them in sustainable food production. Through its new \u201cBetter Farms, Better Lives\u201d initiative, Bayer, a life-science oriented multinational company will run the programme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-20988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nMajor inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"542\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\"},\"wordCount\":614,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\",\"name\":\"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":542,\"caption\":\"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers - Tanzania","description":"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers","og_description":"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":542,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers","datePublished":"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers"},"wordCount":614,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Tanzania","tanzania"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers","name":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg","datePublished":"2021-01-01T22:42:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain an ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/img-5fef79da6e989.jpg","width":1024,"height":542,"caption":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/major-inputs-stimulus-to-boost-small-scale-farmers#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Major inputs stimulus to boost small scale farmers"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}