This is the thinking behind AGRA’s innovative breadbaskets initiative which focuses on increasing yields and expanding cultivated land in fertile areas already endowed with a minimum of essential infrastructure. Bringing governments, development partners, farmer organizations and the private sector together in an integrated way to invest in high potential areas will lead to faster and higher returns than investments in less favourable regions. AGRA is already mobilizing partners to move the breadbasket approach forward in Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania. In the long-run, of course, success in these areas will lead to advances in agriculture across the continent. But we have to accept that an initial focus on breadbasket areas may exacerbate regional inequalities.
Alisema ni watu wachache wanaoweza kupata ajira rasmi za ofisini katika sekta ya umma na binafsi, kwani wengi wa Watanzania wanapata ajira katika kilimo, lakini tatizo limekuwa ni bei ndogo. 'Katika kilimo watu wetu wanajishughulisha kweli, lakini tatizo limekuwa ni bei ndogo, ukiulizia tatizo ni nini utakuta ni gharama za usafiri, tunahitaji kwenda kwa kasi...ndiyo maana nikasema masuala ya miundombinu ya uchukuzi ni muhimu. 'Kwa mfano hakuna haja ya soko kuwa Dar es Salaam tu, kila mkulima aje kupata soko hapa, mkulima aliyeko Rukwa anaweza kuuza nje ya nchi Zambia huko,' alisema Mzee Msuya.