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2007-01-04 |

Tanzania to establish biotech centre

THE Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) will establish an agricultural biotechnology centre aimed at modernising agriculture within and outside Tanzania. The Deputy Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Ms Gaudentia Kabaka, told the 'Daily News on Saturday' in Dar es Salaam that the move would enable Tanzanian farmers to get better seeds that will result in better yield and increased income. Ms Kabaka said the move would also put SUA on the world map in agricultural research activities as it would be assigned to compliment and consolidate the just approved third component in Africa to be established in Cape Town, South Africa after those in Italy and New Delhi.

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2007-01-04 |

Tanzania to establish biotech centre

THE Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) will establish an agricultural biotechnology centre aimed at modernising agriculture within and outside Tanzania. The Deputy Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, Ms Gaudentia Kabaka, told the 'Daily News on Saturday' in Dar es Salaam that the move would enable Tanzanian farmers to get better seeds that will result in better yield and increased income. Ms Kabaka said the move would also put SUA on the world map in agricultural research activities as it would be assigned to compliment and consolidate the just approved third component in Africa to be established in Cape Town, South Africa after those in Italy and New Delhi.

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