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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced Dar es Salaam City authorities to reduce payment of loans given to entrepreneurs, it has been disclosed.<\/p>\n

Dar es Salaam City Deputy Mayor Said Kimji said as leaders they formulated a strategy to reduce the amount that small businesspersons were paying in order to make their businesses sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe failed to force them to repay the loans but we set a strategy to enable them pay at least half of the amount they were paying before the outbreak of Covid-19,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said if a person was repaying 1m\/ – per month, he or she was told to pay at least 500,000\/- or 300,000\/- a month. \u201cAfter doing so there has been positive response from the traders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Kimji, the Dar es Salaam City allocates between 800m\/- to 1bn \/ – as annual loans (10 per cent of the income) to entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Kimji revealed this at a virtual meeting organised by the Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers\u2019 Forum (ESAFF) which involved entrepreneurs, public institutions and media stakeholders to exchange ideas on the impact of Covid-19 on the political economy of African food systems.<\/p>\n

Lucy Lugome, a trader at Kisukuru Ward, said Covid-19 had a telling impact on her business capital as she failed to send her children to school.<\/p>\n

She, however, said groups of entrepreneurs have started to recover from the devastating consequences of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The virtual meeting participants discussed a research sponsored by the International Research Development Center (IDRC) focusing on Covid-19 and its impact on food production, transportation and exports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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