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THERE is a high demand for coffee seedlings of the improved hybrid varieties in several villages in rural Moshi as the old coffee trees are no longer productive. A random survey by the 'Daily News' here revealed that parchment coffee procured by Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union from Siha, Hai, Moshi and Rombo districts in recent years have sharply declined from 85,000 to 2,000 tonnes a year. A cross-section of village leaders have expressed misgivings over declining income of coffee farmers unless their coffee farms were rejuvenated through introduction of the new coffee varieties which have been developed by Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) which can produce 18 million seedlings of the improved hybrid varieties a year. "My five-acre coffee farm is, since last year, completely unproductive as the old coffee trees have all dried up," a farmer from Mwasi North village, Mr Severine Fidelis told this newspaper. He added that coffee farming was his only
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Tanzania: Coffee Growers Turn to Improved Variety
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