Last week, the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) produced 26 seed varieties after years of research aimed at helping farmers to improve their yields. In this interview, the Mlingano ARI Acting Director, Mr Shaban Hamisi, speaks with staff writer MARYCELINA MASHA on the activities of the researchers and their challenges.
Speaker Anne Makinda mourned her saying parliament had lost a very dedicated person while Chadema chairman, Freeman Mbowe boasted she was an exemplary fruit of the party’s policy of spotting and nurturing leadership talent. Call her what they will, death has catapulted former Chadema (Special Seats) legislator Regia Mtema to sudden national fame quite out of proportion to the prominence she enjoyed in her lifetime.
Of late two political issues which have dominated the local media, both the print and electronic, have been what is happening in the ruling CCM and the opposition parties with regard to disputes, accusations and counter-accusations within the parties concerned.
On Monday, Chinese people are celebrating the fifth cycle calendar year of the Dragon out of the 12 cycles contained in the Chinese calendar.
How do we celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s birthday next month? It is perhaps through reciting his history or any other activity that reflects his prophethood. But less than one hundred years after Mohammad’s death in 632 it was for the first Muslim historians began to write about his life as a way to keep the celebrations going.
Arusha The first thing that will strike one on a maiden trip to Karatu is the area’s dominating ‘Red’ color which seems to be synonymous with the place. Karatu’s ruddy clay soil topped with its hilly, mostly bare and rugged landscape makes the area look like mars, the red planet. Speaking of planets, a Meteorite fell onto Karatu on September 11 in 1963.
From four o’clock in the afternoon last Sunday, a section of the Mnazi Mmoja grounds shifted to China. It was an opportunity for Dar es Salaam’s community from the Far East country, to show how they celebrate the coming of a New Year, allbe- it away from home together with locals.
THE odour of stinky socks is repulsive to humans, but an African inventor, Fredros Okumu of Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, has discovered it’s as sweet and seductive as roses to mosquitoes. Canadian tax dollars are helping the young Tanzanian scientist build a sophisticated mosquito trap that is poised to play a major role in the global war on malaria.
