坦桑尼亚花费70亿先令提高棉花产量

Tanzania spends Sh7 bn to boost cotton production
Tanzania has injected Sh7 billion for distribution of insecticides and revival of ginneries to boostcottonproduction. The 2018-19 cotton production is likely to double to 440,000 tonnes from the last season following distribution of quality seeds, according to agriculture minister Japhet Hasunga. Around 14 million Tanzanians depend on cotton farming.
The government wants to attract more investors in cotton production and processing, Hasunga said.
The capacity of the ginneries is estimated at 1.2 million tonnes of cotton per year.
The long-term target is to attain 600,000 tonnes during the next fiscal and a million tonnes by 2023, he said.
The goal is to raise the efficiency of the sector, including raising quality of cotton to international standards, doubling production, improving domestic cotton processing and to make Tanzania the leading cotton producer in Africa, according to areportin a Tanzanian daily.
The ministry of industry and trade has announced a programme for improving atextilesub-sector by mobilising small-scale business operators to engage in tailoring and cotton spinning.
The University of Dar es Salaam's College of Engineering and Technology now offers a degree course in textile technology. With support from Gatsby Africa, the college produced 44 graduates in textile technology in the 2016-17 academic year and 13 in the preceding year.
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坦桑尼亚花费70亿先令提高棉花产量
坦桑尼亚已经注入了70亿先令用于分发杀虫剂和重振棉纺厂以提高棉花产量。农业部长贾弗特•哈松加表示，在发放优质种子后，2018 -2019年度的棉花产量可能比上一季翻一番，达到44万吨。大约1400万坦桑尼亚人民依赖棉花种植。
哈松加说，政府希望在棉花生产和加工方面吸引更多的投资者。
他说，长期目标是在下一财政年度达到60万吨，到2023年达到100万吨。
坦桑尼亚日报的一篇报道称，其目标是提高该部门的效率，包括提高棉花质量至国际标准、产量翻倍、改善国内棉花加工，并使坦桑尼亚成为非洲最大的棉花生产国。
工业和贸易部宣布了一项改善纺织分部门的方案，动员小型企业经营者从事裁缝和棉纺。
达累斯萨拉姆大学工程技术学院现在开设纺织技术学位课程。在非洲盖茨比的支持下，学院在2016-17学年培养了44名纺织技术专业的毕业生，前一年培养了13名。