Farming-Specific Loans Help Tanzania’s Smallholders Increase Productivity

Halima Elias Mtwethe from Mtepa Village in southern Tanzania is one of the smallholder farmers who borrowed from the Mahanje Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (SACCOS). Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
By Isaiah EsipisuMADABA/MAFINGA, Tanzania , Mar 31 2021 (IPS)
Small agricultural loans, disbursed through mobile phones and targeting specific farming activities at different phases of production,…