By STAFF REPORTER
THE Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) through financial partnership from different international and local organizations is implementing seven different programs aimed to promote organic farming across the country.
The on-going programs, worth around 879.8m/- are based on strategies to impart the farmers with useful knowledge on agronomic practices, empowerment of small-scale farmer families, research and advocacy for agroecology as well as market access.
Bakari Mongo, TOAM’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said so far, the on-going robust projects were realizing intended end results in uplifting performance of the sector.
The CEO, unveiled the crucial development in the country’s biological farming corridor during his special interview with Sema TV in Dodoma Capital City.
He disclosed names of the on-going programs in questions and their respective budget in brackets as ‘Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative –EOAI (135,889,229/-), Institutional Innovation for Ecological Organic Agriculture in Africa- IIABA (190,480, 500/-) and Knowledge Hub for Eastern Africa-KHEA (259,625,000/-).
“There are also, ‘The Empowerment of Small-scale Farmer Families through Resilient, Democratic Rural Organizations, Organic Agriculture, and Market Access and Advocacy-ESFROMA (33,000,000/-), ‘Research and Advocacy for Agroecology as well as National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy, at 163,598,000/-,” he added.
And he added, the Movement was very thankful for the patriotic manner to which the international partners are injecting their side with useful financial support for running the projects, saying TOAM was very committed to always ensure the funds provided are being utilized effectively.
He named the organizations behind the projects as Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT), AFD; France, GIZ, Laudes Foundation, CISU, Organic Denmark, SwissAid, Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) and PELUM Tanzania.
Apart from receiving helpful funds from donors, we’re however working round the clock to develop possible ways to set and expand our financial sources in order to stand a safe side to implement more projects.
The Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM) is a registered NGO formed in 2005 under the NGO Act of 2002. It is an umbrella organization that coordinates and promotes the development of organic farming among farmers, distributors and consumers through networking and information distribution.
TOAM sees development of the organic farming sector as a crucial factor for sustainable livelihoods and envisions establishing a vibrant, sustainable and mutually beneficial organic sector in Tanzania.
Comments
Post a Comment