Dar es Salaam, July 8 -- TANZANIA Forest Service Agency (TFS) has assured stakeholders that it would continue to train more timber graders and inspectors to cope with the increasing pace of investments and technological changes in the forest sector.

TFS Chief Executive Officer Professor Dos Santos Silayo made the remark recently at a ceremony to award some TFS staff with certificates and licenses, after they completed some short course on timber grading and inspection facilitated by Moshi based Forest Industries Training Institute (FITI).

According TFS currently there are only 30 timber graders and inspectors against the actual country demand of 60 to 90 of them.

Prof Silayo said changes in the economy have necessitated the need of tra...