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Tanzania’s Clove industry under scrutiny  

After over four decades of decline and stagnation, clove - Zanzibar's backbone sector - is back with a price bang and renewed advocacy. But Clove growers are sceptical about the current regeneration path taken by the government and its agencies in an effort to bring back to new life the clove industry in Zanzibar.

The farmers feel that focusing just on few issues like price to revive such a huge industry won't help a great deal. . . .

Zacpo strongly recommends disbandment of the ZSTC and introduce free market mechanisms to run the industry for better performance. “Efforts should also be made to activate local demand for cloves especially industrial demand for production of essential oils. The main instrument for rejuvenation of Indonesian clove industry was high local demand of cloves from kretek –cigarette manufacturers,” it stresses.

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