BENEFICIARIES of Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL)’s agribusiness project have applauded the brewer for its supports in providing inputs and ingredients that have enabled them to boost their productivity.
Speaking with reporters recently,
farmers form Arusha, Manyara and Kilimanjaro regions said SBL’s support
has simplified their farming and stimulated their social and economic
wellbeing. Saidi Musa, a large-scale farmer from Kilimanjaro Region
said, for the past five years, SBL’s support has bolstered his economic
status.
Enabling him to pay school fees for his
children as well as providing a stable income. SBL’s Agribusiness
project is a brainchild of the brewer that seeks to support local
farmers of barley, maize, millet and sorghum by providing them with
quality seeds, fertilizer and other farming inputs in order to increase
their yields.
Mwinyi Makame, a farmer from Manyara
Region, hailed the beer-maker for the shot-in-arm. That has enabled him
to purchase farming implements such as tractors and boom sprayers that
have boosted his mechanized farming.
According to John Wanyancha, SBL’s
Corporate Relations Director, the project, has incorporated small,
medium and large-scale farmers. By seeking to facilitate the production
value chain with the ultimate aim of benefiting the farmers through
increased production and ready market for their produce.
“This is a sustainable programme whose
main objective is to empower farmers in order to facilitate local
production of cereal crops like barley, maize and white sorghum in
various parts of the country. So as to increase their internal capacity
in the production of the raw materials used to manufacture beer brands
for SBL,”said Wanyacha.
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