Tanzania is increasing sisal cultivation with the aim of producing as much as 100,000 metric tons a year by 2021 and eventually surpassing Brazil, the world’s largest grower of the crop, the head of the industry regulator said.

The East African country, which is the second-biggest producer of the fiber used in textiles and dartboards, has been implementing a 10-year production plan since 2012, Yunus Mssika, the director of the Tanzania Sisal Board, said Tuesday in a phone interview from the coastal town of Tanga.

“Our aim is to overtake Brazil because in the past Tanzania used to be the leading sisal producer,” he said. “Right now the demand for fiber is so huge and what we produce is essentially a small portion of the demand. We cannot match the demand.”
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This crazy crop. No fertilizer needed, no pest worries, no insects, no grazing attacks, no thefts, no weeds, no drought, no mentainance. Even fire cant kill it. Wasting away all over the north. Yet some countries earn bullions from it. We even import its finished products. What a shame. How I wish theres any processors around, I will love to cultivate it.

dgitrader:
This crazy crop. No fertilizer needed, no pest worries, no insects, no grazing attacks, no thefts, no weeds, no drought, no mentainance. Even fire cant kill it. Wasting away all over the north. Yet some countries earn bullions from it. We even import its finished products. What a shame. How I wish theres any processors around, I will love to cultivate it.

Do you know precisely location where sisal is grown in Nigeria?

kk4real:


Do you know precisely location where sisal is grown in Nigeria?

plateau, bauchi, and by extension it will do well in Benue, nassarawa, fct, kaduna and niger.

dgitrader:
This crazy crop. No fertilizer needed, no pest worries, no insects, no grazing attacks, no thefts, no weeds, no drought, no mentainance. Even fire cant kill it. Wasting away all over the north. Yet some countries earn bullions from it. We even import its finished products. What a shame. How I wish theres any processors around, I will love to cultivate it.

Damn it!never know we got this in Naija too!saw the processing company while i was in Dar months ago