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Organiza tionTanzania FarmersService Centre(TFSC)Tanganyika Farmers’Association (TFA)Nandra Engineeringworks Ltd, MoshiSEAZ AgriculturalEquipment company,MbeyaActivities• Tractor subsoiling andploughing, and combineharvester hire services• Sell agricultural machineryand spare parts• Service agricultural machinery• Support conservationagriculture research activities,training and demonstrationtrials• Hold workshops and courseson sustainable agriculture,use of agricultural machineryand effi cient crop production• Initially supported by GTZ,now self-funded; retain adevelopment mandate• Supply inputs: seeds,fertilizer, pesticides,fungicides, hand tools, DAPequipment sprayers• Branches throughout country• Membership fee TZS15,000: receive discounton purchases, access tocredit, share in dividend, freeadvisory services• Manufacture DAP rippers,spare parts for rippers andtractors (on request)• Also manufacture maize mills,hullers, grain storage tanks,cookers, water tanks• Promote DAP to reducedrudgery and improvelivelihoods of smallholderfarmers• Manufacturers, importers anddistributors of various DAPimplements and providers ofafter-sales services• Produced Mkombozimultipurpose toolbar• Train farmers on use of DAPimplements• Consultancy and advisoryservicesMethods to promoteconservation farming• In collaborationwith SARI have ademonstration plot withcover crops, minimumor no tillage• Provide machinery fordemonstration trials,seeds and conservationagriculture expertsupport• Promote tractorsubsoiling services tofarmers (TZS 60,000per acre)• Sell to members (oncredit) and non-members• Babati depot also sellsDAP rippers made byNandra Engineeringworks• Opportunity: displaylablab seeds to createand awareness• Facilitate grouppurchases on credit• Spare parts for ripperand tractors availabledirectly from workshopor shop in Arusha• Opportunity:manufactures no-tilldirect planter, jabplanter• Reproduced no-till DAPplanter from Brazil• Sold more than 500conservation tillageimplements (including aripper attachment for itsMkombozi multipurposetoolbar)Links with otherorganizationsSARIManufacturersand suppliersLAMP Babati(rippers), CTP(rippers)Karatu District 101