FLUE-CURED TOBACCO

closed

The main components of the project are: (a) the establishment of some 15,000 new growers in 150 new village communities, arranged in complexes of about ten villages each, cultivating at full development 30,000 acres of tobacco; (b) the construction of village and on-farm infrastructure comprising access roads, village water supplies, baling centers, curing barns and grading sheds; (c) the establishment of some 15 cooperative societies, of about 1,000 farmers each, to act as channels for the distribution of farm credit and other inputs and to supervise baling; (d) the provision of credit for on-farm seasonal inputs and infrastructure and for working capital for the cooperatives; (e) the provision of staff for project planning and management, for extension services for farmers and cooperatives, for training and research and for NDCA and the Tanganyika Tobacco Board, together with necessary facilities; (f) the introduction of a system of tobacco auctions and construction of an auction floor and additional tobacco storage and processing facilities, following a study of these proposed new marketing arrangements.