Petrobena East Africa Limited and BASF Tanzania Limited have signed an agreement under which the two companies will cooperate and ensure that pesticides reach peasants countrywide and in time.
Speaking after signing the accord, BASF’s Senior Marketing Officer, East African Zone, Mr. Lincholn Asembo, said Tanzanian smallholder farmers lose their crops to pests for lack of right pesticides or for having no pesticides at all. The agreement between the two firms, he said, would go a long way in solving that problem.
“We hope this agreement will be a timely catalyst in the nation’s efforts to solve the age-old problem of pesticides countrywide because Petrobena is an important and a longtime stakeholder in promoting Tanzania’s agricultural revolution and has experience and a big distribution network.
"We are happy to work together to increase agricultural productivity in Tanzania,” Mr. Asembo said.
He said Tanzania’s agriculture faces multiple challenges that demand clear-cut solutions.
“One of those challenges is the timely delivery of right pesticides, fertilizers and other farm inputs to farmers. We hope our joint effort will go a long way in solving farmers’ problems and promoting agricultural productivity in this country,” he explained.
The agreement was signed after a short training of Petrobena’s field staff in the best ways of using BASF products.
The Managing Director of Petrobena East Africa Limited, Mr. Peter Kumalilwa, welcome the agreement, saying his company will be the sole distributor the pesticides and assured farmers of timely pesticides and fertilizers.
“We welcome this agreement that enables us to work with this international company in solving problems besetting Tanzania’s agriculture. BASF makes world-class pesticides. If the pesticides will be properly used, they will liberate the farmers from recurrent inadequate harvests,” he said.
Mr. Kumalilwa said the joint efforts of the two companies will contribute fittingly to the government’s ambition to increase agricultural productivity and transform smallholders into producers of quality raw materials for local industries and of surplus crops for export.
Petrobena East Africa Ltd has demonstration farms where it trains farmers and also distributes fertilizers and other products produced by Yara, a Norwegian multinational corporation.
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