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| Mkuu wa Wilaya Makete, mkoani Njombe Veronica Kessy (katikati) akipata maelezo ya mashine ya kuchakata mbao kutoka kwa Mshauri wa Maendeleo ya Viwanda vya Misitu Nicholas Moore wa Program ya PandaMiti Kibiashara (PFP) kabla ya kuizindua rasmi kwa ajili ya kikundi cha kuchakata mazao ya misitu ya kupandwa kwa jina la UTII, kinachoundwa na vijiji vinne yaani (Usagatikwa, Tandala, Ihela na Ikonda) katika kijiji cha Tandala jana. (Picha na Friday Simbaya) |
By Friday Simbaya, Makete
PRIVATE Forestry Programme (PFP) is supporting Makete District in Njombe region with land use planning, tree planting through tree growers’ incentive scheme, human capacity development, forest mapping and primary wood processing enterprise development, the Guardian can establish.
The programme is also support with expert assessment of forest sector investment opportunities, participatory plantation mapping and tree growers association (TGA) formation.
Michael Hawkes, a Team Leader of Private Forestry Programme made the statement recently during the PFP activity plan for Makete District (July 2017- December 2018).
He said the programme will also supporting in financial capacity development, adding that southern highlands has substantial number of commercial and private forest plantations.
Despite this, it was unclear on the geographical extent of forest coverage, forest plantation coverage by district and proportion of private owned plantation coverage.
Hawkes said clearing of the challenges above will help in strategic forest management planning.
According to the Forest Industries Development Advisor Nicholas Moore, Makete District has potential forest resources with at least 27,696 hectares of private owned plantations.
“The plans are there to help private tree growers to establish plantations and management, business development and marketing...,” he said.
He said one the objectives of the forest industry development are to create an industrial node (sawmill) model by using local materials and local technology.
Other objectives include development of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) groups and strengthen individual SMEs to enable business investment and technology advancement, and integrate TGAs/tree growers with permanent sawmill industry.
“Sawmilling in Makete by using low quality ‘dingdong’ saws create more waste than marketable product that is 25-30% sawn timber and 70-75% waste…,” Moore elaborated.
He said improved sawing and drying of wood based products increase the value of timber and improved sawn timber can be used for production of value added products.
Moore further said Makete District forest Resource with 27,000 hectares mapped potential annual log harvest volume of 420,000 cubic metres, hence industrialization policy support in the country.
On her part, Makete District Commissioner Veronica Kessy, during the opening of the workshop of TGAs Business Development Macro Planning for Makete DC, said Makete residents should also consider growing food crops not only concentrating on tree planting, hence food security.
She said planting forests should go hand in hand with food crop production and PFP programme must consider participatory land use planning to local people is well implemented.
Kessy also inaugurated a wood processing sawmill for local SME group called UTII, which consists of four villages (Usagatikwa, Tandala, Ihela and Ikonda) at Tandala village in Makete District, Njombe Region.
Nevertheless, Private Forestry Programme (PFP) is bilateral programme with Finland to run for January 2014 to December 2018 with Finnish funding of 19,150,000 pounds.
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