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Tanzania: Fall of employment in Tanzania agriculture sector, a good sign? (Afro News) 

November 20, 2022


Afro News writes that employment in Tanzania’s agriculture sector is said to be dropping while that in the manufacturing sector is on the rise, a change driven by agriculture mechanization.
The article mentions the 2020 report by International Food Policy Research Institute, ‘Agricultural Mechanization in Tanzania,’ which points to the success of this national development initiative.  
 

Republished in AllAfrica. 

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