Dar es Salaam, April 28 -- DODOMA: PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday launched the Building Better Tomorrow (BBT) Programmes Project I, which focuses on large-scale farming, with a funding boost of 129.71 million US dollars (about 347.37bn/-) from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

During the launch, he also suggested measures aimed at strengthening the cooperative sector in the country.

In the course, he expressed his gratitude to the AfDB for providing the soft loan to support the five-year project, which will cover 53.76 per cent of the total budget, while the Tanzanian government will contribute the remaining 46.24 per cent.

Speaking in Dodoma during a discussion on cooperative sector development, which was part of the road...