Dar es Salaam, March 18 -- ARUSHA: THE East African Community has launched the three-year Sustainable Regional Agricultural Extension (ENSURE) Project, with a total budget of 12 .5 million US dollars (about 33.7bn/-) aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability across the region.

The project, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), is expected to increase the longterm sustainability of agriculture in the region by increasing access to robust extension services while improving the capacity of partner states to provide responsive and reflexive extension services and training in line with Article 105 (2d) of the treaty for establishment of EAC.

It will focus on three key areas of intervention, — to create an...