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Wakulima wadogo nchini Tanzania hivi karibuni wataweza kupata taarifa mbalimbali za kijiditali kuhusu masuala ya pembejeo, ukiwemo ushauri utakaosaidia kutatua matatizo yanayowakabili kama vile upatikanaji wa fedha, pembejeo na mafunzo. Mradi huo umezinduliwa na taasisi tatu za Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Positive International Limited (PIL), na Grameen Foundation katika sherehe zilizohudhuriwa na maofisa wa serikali, wawakilishi wa vyama vya wakulima, taasisi za fedha, kampuni za mbegu, wafanyabiashara wa nyenzo za kilimo na wale wanaojishughulisha na biashara za mazao ya sekta ya kilimo. 

Kifaa hicho cha dijitali kitawawezesha wakulima kulipia mapema pembejeo wanazohitaji kupitia simu za mkononi kwa bei nafuu. Pia kifaa hicho kitawapa wakulima pembejeo kulingana na mazao na malengo yao ya uzalishaji na pia kupata taarifa za ushauri kuhusu matumizi bora ya pembejeo hizo. “Moja ya changamoto kubwa zinazowakabili wakulima ni kwamba hukosa fedha mwanzoni mwa msimu wa upandaji mazao, jambo ambalo huwalazimisha kutafuta fedha hizo kwa ajili ya ununuzi wa pembejeo na hivyo kuwaongezea mzigo,” alisema Hedwig Siewertsen, kiongozi anayeshughulikia masuala ya fedha wa shirika la Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). “Kifaa hicho cha dijitali kwa ajili kusaidia upatikanaji pembejeo za kilimo ni ufumbuzi wa kipekee. Kitawaimarisha na kuwasaidia wakulima kutenga fedha kwenye akaunti zao za simu ili waweze kununua pembejeo bora kwa muda muafaka na kwa bei nafuu ya asilimia 30.” Wakulima wadogo nchini Tanzania huzalisha asimia 70 ya chakula ingawa karibu nusu yao hawazalishi chakula cha kutosha kwa ajili ya mauzo. Wanakabiliwa na ukosefu wa teknolojia ya kilimo cha kisasa, hawana uwezo wa kujipatia pembejeo bora na wanakosa huduma za kiufundi za ughani zinazoweza kuwasidia kukuza kilimo pamoja na ukosefu wa mafunzo. 

Mwakilishi wa AGRA nchini, Bw. Vianey Rweyendela akifafanua jambo wakati wa uzinduzi huo. Badala yake wakulima hawa wanategemea zaidi kilimo cha mvua, zana duni za kilimo na mbegu hafifu ambazo ubora wake hupungua kila msimu wa kilimo. Isitoshe, wakulima wanaotaka kuwekeza katika kilimo cha kisasa wanashindwa kupata mikopo kwenye taasisi za fedha kwa vile ni asilimia 6 tu ya mikopo ya benki ndio imetengwa kusaidia sekta ya kilimo. Wakulima wanatumia fedha zao chache kununua pembejeo za kilimo kutoka kwa walanguzi; pembejeo ambazo mara nyingi hazina uthibitisho wa ubora. Wakati huo huo, wafanyabiashara wa pembejeo za kilimo wa sekta binafsi wamegundua kwamba usambazaji wa huduma bora maeneo ya vijijini una faida ndogo kutokana na gharama kubwa za kufanya biashara hiyo, uwezo mdogo wa kifedha kwa upande wa wakulima na umaskini uliokithiri miongoni mwa wananchi wengi vijijini. 

 Matokeo yake ni kwamba wastani wa uzalishaji wa mazao mengi kwa hekta unakadiriwa kuwa ni tani 1.7 na kwamba mavuno ya mazao muhimu ya chakula kama vile mahindi yamekuwa yakipungua kwa sababu ya uharibifu wa ardhi na hali mbaya ya hewa. Jinsi ya kupeleka kifaa cha dijitali kwa wakulima Kifaa cha dijitali kitakuwa na mpango mahsusi wa mazao utakaowawezesha wakulima kupata pembejeo kwa kuzingatia malengo yao ya uzalishaji. 

Pia, kupitia simu za mkononi, kitawezesha upatikanaji wa huduma za ughani kwa njia ya ujumbe (SMS) kuwaelimisha wakulima matumizi ya pembejeo. AGRA, shirika linaloongozwa na Waafrika wenye weledi wa kuwasaidia wakulima wadogo barani Afrika, ndilo linalogharimia ukuzaji wa kifaa hicho cha dijitali kupitia ufadhili wa MasterCard Foundation. Taasisi ya Grameen Foundation, ambayo ni taasisi inayojitegemea inayotumia teknolojia ya dijitali kutafuta ufumbuzi wa matatizo ya umaskini, ndio inasisimia ukuzaji wa chombo hicho cha dijitali. Kifaa hicho pamoja na huduma zake kitatolewa na kampuni ya pembejeo za kilimo ya Positive International Limited, ambayo nembo yake ya kibiashara ya Snow Brand imesaidia sana kutafuta ufumbuzi wa matatizo yanayowakabili wakulima nchini Tanzania. Mfumo huo wa ununuzi wa pembejeo utazingatia uwepo wa huduma za fedha za simu za mkononi zinazokua kwa kasi nchini Tanzania. 

Uzinduzi ukifanywa na Mkuu wa AGRA nchini Bw. Vianey Rweyendela (wa pili kulia) kwa kushirikiana na wawakilishi wa Positive International Limited (PIL), na Grameen Foundation. Mradi huo utatekelezwa kwa kipindi cha miezi kumi na nane, ikiwemo awamu ya miezi sita ya utafiti na maendeleo, na miezi kumi na mbili ya awamu ya majaribio ya kifaa hicho cha dijitali. Majaribio yataanza na wateja 15 wa kampuni ya Positive International na wakulima wadogo 15,000 wa mikoa ya Arusha na Mbeya. Mazao yatakayohusika katika mradi huo ni mahindi na maharage, ambayo ni muhimu sana katika maeneo hayo. Kwa mfano, mkoani Arusha – moja ya maeneo yanayohusika katika mradi – mazao hayo mawili hulimwa katika eneo la hekta 150,000 ingawa kuna pengo la mavuno la asimilia 213 kwa upande wa mahindi na asilimia 152 kwa upande wa maharage. Matumizi ya pembejeo bora ndio njia pekee itakayosaidia kuongeza mavuno kwa asilimia 150 ili kutosheleza mahitaji ya chakula katika ngazi ya kaya na pia kukuza mapato. 

Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Positive International, Karan Kapoor, anasema soko la matumizi ya kifaa cha dijitali kwa mauzo ya pembejeo za kilimo nchini Tanzania ni kubwa. “Mamilioni ya wakulima wadogo Tanzania wanahitaji upatikanaji wa pembejeo bora za kilimo kwa bei nafuu. Tutaanza matumizi ya kifaa hiki cha dijitali kwa kuwahusisha wafanyabiashara 15 kwa kipindi cha miezi 18 ijayo. Lengo litakuwa kuwafikia wakulima 15,000 ili kuthibitisha matumizi endelevu ya kifaa hicho.” “Baada ya hapo, tumepanga kupanua matumizi yake ili kuwafikia wafanyabiashara 500 nchini bila ya kuwepo miundombinu mpya.” “Watanzania milioni 19 wanaishi kwa kutegemea mashamba madogo ingawa mtu mmoja kati ya watu 25 hupata huduma ya umeme na watu wengi hawana maji safi na salama majumbani mwao,” anasema Raphael Wolf, Meneja Mradi wa Grameen Foundation. 

“Kifaa hiki kitaleta mapinduzi makubwa ya dijitali mashambani. Kwa mara ya kwanza, wakulima wengi wataweza kupata raslimali wanazohitaji kuongeza uzalishaji na mapato yao.” Jinsi wakulima wanavyopata pembejeo muhimu za kilimo kama vile mbolea na kuongeza mavuno yao, shirika la AGRA litapata fursa ya kutumia uwepo wa ubia wake na vitega uchumi vilivyopo Tanzania kuwaunganisha wakulima na masoko kupitia ushirikiano na wanunuzi wa kimataifa, wawezeshaji wa biashara na mashirika yasiyokuwa ya kiserikali yanayoshughulika na upatikanaji wa masoko. Mradi huu ukifanikiwa Tanzania, washirika wake wanakusudia kutumia uwezo wao wa pamoja kuanzisha dhana hii na kifaa hicho cha dijitali katika nchi nyingine za Afrika, ukiwemo mtandao wa wafanyabiashara za kilimo katika nchi za Malawi, Msumbiji, Zambia na nchi nyingine katika bara hili.

Tanzanian Prime Minister, Hon, Kassim Majaliwa is expected to grace the second national economic empowerment symposium to citizens on June 10, 2017 in Dodoma which will attract together the public and private sector to discuss issues on empowerment to fuel the country’s economic drive on industrialization to champion by the President Dr John Magufuli.

Tanzania Prime Minister, Mr. Kassim Majaliwa Kassim

National Economic Empowerment Council (NEEC), Executive Director, Ms Beng’I Issa said that during the press conference in Dar es Salaam, that symposium will pave the way for the important stakeholders private and public sector to discuss on the better way to foster the industrialization drive that will uplift ordinary people from poverty.

  

“The national symposium is focusing on how to get opinions from stakeholders from that sectors so that it will helpful for them during the implementation process that seek to rescue and empowering people from extreme poverty by assisting financial  and economical,” the one day  symposium with the motto “empowering Tanzanians to participate in the industrial economy,” she added Ms Issa

She said the second symposium have various goals including receiving reports on the implementations and coordination on the empowerment process and policy to ordinary people in the national level while the Premier is expected also to attend the discussion.

Other goals are to recognize other ministries, department, institute, local government and districts across the country that have achieved their targets in the areas of empowering people in their respective areas, while the workshop will fuel the implementation and strategic planning will be deploy in order to expand their service to ordinary people across the country.

The symposium will be use also as platform for other people to learn from one another on the basis of empowerment mode as a path way for others to follow the foot step and among other thing the Premier will also launch the annual empowerment report which comes from the assessment of empowerment implementation report.

Ms Beng’I explained further that the report is implementing by various stakeholders and they will hand over awards for those who did better as a stepping stone to foster the government agenda on the empowerment policy to ordinary people.

She added that the council has invited more than 300 stakeholders from private and public sector and other development partners, NGOs, Research Institutes and Universities to attend the workshop.

Ms Issa noted that they signed an agreement with Tanzania Standard Newspaper (TSN) in the process of promoting and educating process to the public about the pros and cons on the empowerment policy and implementation plans to the public.

On his part, the Managing Editor of TSN, Dr Jim Yonazi said that the government newspapers is ready to work shoulder to shoulder with council to achieve the government targets and goals in ensuring ordinary people are economic empowered while the fifth phase government reached its target on green industrial revolution.

“We have re-organized to ensure that will walk on the government/Presidents talks to meet the industrial economy country’s by informing and educating people about the existing opportunities that the government is providing,” Dr Yonazi added.

The symposium is taking place every year under the council and it comes from the coordination of the empowering ordinary people from the Ministry, department, local government authorities, districts and the private sector, while it was officially launched February 9, last year by the Premier.

The directives has always fueling the coordination and implementation of the national policy on the empowering ordinary people economical in the private sector by creating a council of empowering people and coordinators in the ministries,  26 regions and all 185  municipalities across the country.  

Tanzania has made significant progress in delivering education and health services, particularly in the areas of rural health infrastructure and teacher attendance, according to the latest Service Delivery Indicators.

 

However, the new data also highlight weaknesses that are contributing to low levels of learning in primary schools and tragic mortality levels among mothers and newborns. Tanzania’s maternal mortality rate is very high at 432 deaths per 100,000 live births.

 

“While Tanzania has reduced child mortality, mothers and newborns are still at high risk of untimely death; and while the country has achieved near-universal primary school enrollment, one in four children cannot read a paragraph in Kiswahili in Standard Four,” said Keith Hansen, World Bank Group Vice President for Human Development. 

 

“Service Delivery Indicators are public data that citizens can use to hold the government accountable for education and health services, and that the government can use to inform reform efforts in these sectors. As Tanzania aspires to achieve middle-income status by 2025, SDI is an example of the kind of data transparency and accountability that could be transformational.”

 

Health infrastructure is improving rapidly, especially in rural Tanzania, going from 5 percent of health facilities with clean water, power, and improved sanitation in 2010 to 36 percent in 2014. Serious challenges remain, including getting more health workers out to rural areas—which have only 9 percent of the country’s doctors and 28 percent of its health workforce—and boosting their diagnostic capacity. The data show that three out of five health workers cannot identify severe dehydration, a fatal condition for children.

 

According to the latest information available to the press says in education, teacher absenteeism from schools has fallen sharply by 40 percent, leading to 24 more teaching days a year. 

 

However, 37 percent of the teachers who were in school were still not in the classroom and teaching. Therefore, classroom absence remains a challenge and points to school leadership and management issues. 

 

Teacher-pupil ratios have become more manageable, dropping by 20 percent across the country, but remain very high in urban schools. Importantly, teacher knowledge continues to be a serious issue, with only one in five mastering the curriculum they teach.

 

The World Bank, REPOA and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) have partnered to produce this round of data for Tanzania. SDI surveys have so far been done in eight African countries—Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, capturing the service delivery experience of 370 million people. Tanzania and Senegal pioneered these surveys in 2010.

 

Ends.

Baadhi ya Wananchi wa kijiji cha Mkoka wakitazama Msafara wa Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Abdulrahman Kinana na ujumbe wake ukikatiza kwenye moja ya daraja wakati wakielekea katika kijiji hicho cha Mkoka,Wilayani Kongwa mkoani Dodoma,Ndugu kinana aliweka jiwe la msingi la kitega uchumi cha tawi la CCM pamoja na kufungua Ofisi ya CCM Tawi la Mkoka.Ndugu Kinana akiwa amembatana na Katibu wa NEC Itikadi na Uenezi Taifa,Nape Nnauye anaendelea na ziara yake ya siku tisa mkoani humo,akikagua na kuhimiza utekelezaji wa Ilani ya Uchaguzi ya CCM ya mwaka 2010 ikiwemo sambamba na kuimarisha uhai wa chama,kusikiliza matatizo ya Wananchi na kuyatafutia ufumbuzi.

Mamia ya wakazi wa kijiji cha Mkoka wakishangilia jambo wakati

Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Abdulrahman Kinana alipokuwa akiwahutubia jioni ya leo katika mkutano wa hadhara Wilayani Kongwa mkoani Dododoma.Ndugu Kinana akiwa amembatana na Katibu wa NEC Itikadi na Uenezi Taifa,Nape Nnauye anaendelea na ziara yake ya siku tisa mkoani humo,akikagua na kuhimiza utekelezaji wa Ilani ya Uchaguzi ya CCM ya mwaka 2010 ikiwemo sambamba na kuimarisha uhai wa chama,kusikiliza matatizo ya Wananchi na kuyatafutia ufumbuzi.

Katibu wa NEC Itikadi na Uenezi Nape Nnauye akiwahutubia wakazi wa kijiji cha Mkoka,kwenye mkutano wa hadhara uliofanyika jioni ya leo wilayani Kongwa mkoani Dodoma.



 sehemu ya umati wa watu wakimsikiliza katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Kinana kwenye mkutano wa hadhara uliofanyika katika kijiji cha Mkoka,Wilayani Kongwa.

 Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Kinana pamoja na Katibu wa NEC Itikadi na Uenezi Nape Nnauye wakiwa wamefuatana na wananchi walipokuwa wakiwasili katika uwanja wa Mkoka kwa ajili ya kufanya mkutano wa hadhara,mbali ya Uongozi huo wa juu wa CCM,pia waliambatana Mbunge wa jimbo la Kongwa Mh.Job Ndugai,Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Dodoma,Mh.Chiku Galawa,Mwenyekiti wa CCM mkoa wa Dodoma,Mh.Addam Kimbisa pamoja na viongozi wengine wa wilaya.

Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Kinana pichani juu ya jengo akiwa sambamba na Mbunge wa jimbo la Kongwa Mh.Job Ndugai wakishiriki ujenzi wa zahanati ya kijiji cha Njoge,Kata ya Njoge pamoja na kusalimia Wananchi wa eneo hilo.

Mbunge wa jimbo la Kongwa Mh.Job Ndugai akifafanua jambo kwa Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Kinana mara baada ya kushiriki ujenzi wa darasa la shule ya msingi Mlali,katika kijiji cha Mlali Wilayani Kongwa.

Katibu Mkuu wa CCM,Ndugu Kinana akizindua mradi wa maji katika kijiji cha Mlali Wilayani Kongwa,mradi huo uliogharimu zaidi ya shilingi milioni mia sita ulianza kujengwa mnamo mwaka 2013 na kutarajiwa kumalizika mei 2014,lakini kwa bahati mbaya mradi huo haukukamilika kwa wakati kutokana na ukosefu wa fedha.Mbunge wa jimbo hilo la Kongwa,Mh.Ndugai alieleza kuwa mradi huo kwa sasa umekwishakamilika kwa asilimia tisini na kwamba mradi huo wa maji safi na salama utawanufaisha wanakijiji wapatao mia saba na zaidi.