MWANZA, Nov. 27 -- COTTON farmers in the country have been encouraged to adopt modern production technologies, including planting using new spacing ‘60 cm x 30 cm developed by Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), which has been a key driver in increasing cotton yields.

TARI Director General, Dr Thomas Bwana said recently during a stakeholders meeting for the Victoria Cotton Project held at the TARI Ukiriguru Centre in Mwanza that in some areas, farmers were harvesting less than 500 kilogrammes per acre, but now there are farmers achieving over 1,000 kilogrammes per acre.

The meeting aimed to review the implementation of the project. Dr Bwana noted that farmers who have applied the technologies promoted by the project h...