Posted on July, 29, 2021 at 09:54 am
The Cereals and Other Produce Board of Tanzania (CPB) will start exporting maize and other cereals to South Sudan after securing market in the country.
Following a visit to Juba last month, the CPB director general Dr Anselm Moshi said they would export about 200,000 tonnes of cereals, starting with 60,000 tonnes of white sorghum this season.
In their visit in June, CBP officials met with the South Sudan’s Ministry of Trade officials, who agreed to open the market to agricultural produce from Tanzania to enable farmers and traders between the two countries to trade.
CPB is now in discussions with the World Food Programme over 50,000 tonnes of maize it wants to sell in the next harvesting season, to be distributed in South Sudan.
Already, the CBP has entered into a partnership with Kapari Ltd to open warehouses in Nairobi, for storing 102,000 tonnes of maize in transit to South Sudan, said Dr Moshi.
The CPB is set to buy some 298,000 tonnes of maize, sorghum, rice beans, and sunflower seeds from farmers in the 2021/2022 harvest season for export to South Sudan and Kenya.
Source: The East African