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Mwamapuli Irrigation I have been working with the Mwamapuli
Irrigation Scheme from a couple of months;
Scheme Gained a I came into contact with them during the

Reliable Source Of establishment of demo plots then later we
decided to do business. I normally bring
Agricultural Input the fertilizer and store it in the Mwamapuli
Irrigation Scheme warehouse. They have their
salesperson who sells the product and they
pay into my account as they sell the fertilizer.
I normally come here to monitor the stock
movement.

Challenges other agri-input from the Agrodealer shops around the
Igunga district. The Agrodealer business in Igunga is
Mwamapuli Irrigation Scheme is a smallholder-based characterized by small shops, this posed a challenge to
irrigation scheme found in the Igunga district at farmers in the Mwamapuli Irrigation Scheme who needed
Mwamapuli village. The scheme with 2100 ha of rising, a reliable source of agricultural input, in this case seed,
600 ha in the scheme and 1500 around the scheme serves fertilizer and agrochemicals.
more than 3500 smallholder farmers. This scheme is one
of the big schemes in the Tabora region and is important
for the production of rice, which is one of the staple foods Initiatives
around the region and the entire country. Mwamapuli
Irrigation Scheme is under Mwamapuli AMACOS, which is AFAP Tanzania, in collaboration with Naisae and Neema
responsible for the management of water use around the Agrocentre, conducted demo plots in the Tabora region in
scheme and the promotion of the use of good agricultural the Igunga, Nzega, Urambo, Uyui and Tabora districts. One
practices. of the areas that benefitted from these demonstration
plots was the Mwamapuli Irrigation Scheme, since this is
Smallholder farmers in the Mwamapuli Irrigation Scheme, where paddy demo plots were established.
like other irrigation schemes, were buying fertilizer and
During the course of establishing demo plots, Naisae and

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