New Sack Technology Goes Long Way in Safeguarding Grain for Tanzanian Farmers

New Sack Technology Goes Long Way in Safeguarding Grain for Tanzanian Farmers
Tanzanian farmers display the locally made hermetic grain storage sacks in Kondoa, Tanzania, on June 6, 2018. Noor Khamis/University of Zurich
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KONDOA, Tanzania—Sixty-year-old Mwanahamisi Selemani is a farmer in Mnenia village, Kondoa district, in central Tanzania. She cultivates maize on a five-acre piece of land.

“It gives around 20 sacks, but last year I only planted three acres and harvested seven bags of maize,” said Selemani, a mother of three grown children.