Project Manager of Hanns R. Neumann
Stiftung Africa Limited (HRNS), Mr Webster Miyanda, said this while
handing CPU machine worth more than ten million shillings to coffee
farmers of Nambinzo Depot in Mbozi District.
He said coffee farmers are working hard,
sweating in the sun, but they are benefiting other people from outside
the district who buy their product at a very low cost, leaving them
swimming in poverty.
“You find somebody comes here with
nothing, he buys coffee from you at a very low price and you praise him
for his hard worker, he came here with nothing but now he owns a car,”
he noted.
Mr Miyanda said that for the farmers to
benefit from their coffee they should work in groups in processing
coffee, including during drying, piercing and selling it. “If you cannot
work together for your own development, will you really be able to
develop the country?” he questioned.
Moreover, he said coffer buyers outside
Mbozi do not benefit them because if they sell coffee at the auction,
the circulation of money does not return to the district, saying that if
they could organise themselves groups, the money circulation will
return to Mbozi and help to develop other economic activities.
Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) in Southern
Highland Zone official, Mr Zani Edmund, said in order to have the
quality required, they need to process coffee together in their groups
and if they want to get more profit they must increase their production.
One of Nambinzo coffee farmers, Ms
Matlida Sanga, said the machine which they received from HRNS will help
them improve quality of the coffee.
“We have already seen the benefit of
working in groups and this machine has the capacity of piercing 500
kilos per hour, which will be of great help,” she said.
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