According to the Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, these funds will be used for plantation expansion and modernization of the cultivation of oil palm. He also instructed the Ministry of agriculture to prepare a demonstration farm in the region so that farmers could get acquainted with modern technologies of cultivation of oil palm. Now Tanzania imports 55.5% of all edible oils. At the same time, has a huge production potential in subsectors palm oil and sunflower. The climate of Tanzania is similar to the climate of Malaysia, which ranks second in the world production of palm oil, while Tanzania is not even in the list of countries producing palm oil.

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