Dar es Salaam — Overdependence on rains tellingly annoys Ms Eda Chibuti, a smallholder vegetable farmer in Chamwino District.
The 36-year-old cannot meaningfully irrigate crops as infrastructure is poor.
"Had we had enough dams to water our farms, we could have grown more vegetables for sale to earn money," she says.
She is among hundreds of women organised and instructed on issues pertaining to public financing on various sectors like agriculture,
She knows that enough dams can be built if the government amply finance agriculture by allocating 10 per cent of its national budget to the sector.
"If this happens and the money reaches us, [then] our living standards will improve considerably. It's all we are asking for."Ms Chibuti is the mother of two and she expects the third one.

Plea for EAC to increase agriculture funds
Many share Ms Chibuti's concern about the government failure to allocate 10 per cent of the national budget to agriculture. A petition demanding East African Community (EAC) member states to make it legal requirement to allocate and disburse the ten per cent of their national budgets to the sector is circulating.
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