Tanzania, July 6 -- Arusha. The government plans to repossess eight premium but "white elephant" commercial horticulture estates on the southern slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha Region.
Announcing the move in Arusha over the weekend, the deputy minister for Agriculture, Mr Hussein Bashe, said the government will revive the leading farms to bolster horticultural production and realize its annual export value from the current $779 million to $3 billion come 2025.
Local and foreign investors have controversially been pulling-out of the business for a decade now, abandoning the highly fecund flower and vegetable farms at Usa River in Arumeru District, occasioning untold economic woes.
The eight prime plantations with huge potential in flower a...