DODOMA, July 31 -- AGRICULTURE financing in the country has continued to improve over the past four years, with loans injected into the sector rising from 2.8tri/- to a whopping 4.55tri/-, according to the latest data.

Various initiatives, including the introduction of a 1tri/- stimulus package, taken since President Samia Suluhu Hassan assumed office, have significantly lowered the interest rates on agricultural loans from around 20 percent to as low as single digits.

This was revealed yesterday at the Nanenane exhibition grounds in Nzuguni Ward, Dodoma, when the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Gerald Mweli, received a dummy cheque of 400m/- from the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) Managing Director...