THE diversified use of sisal products and by-products domestically and abroad seems to have soothed the pains of struggling small-scale producers of the cash crop, giving hopes for high returns on ...

Teita Sisal Estate Managing Director Phillip Kyriaz shows then-Lands CAS Gideon Mung'aro the vast farm located in Taita-Taveta County.[Renson Mnyamwezi, Standard] One of the largest sisal estates in ...

DAR ES SALAAM, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The government of Tanzania's recent resolve to revive cultivation of sisal has perked smallholder farmers up in the east African nation of about 55 million people.

Sisal, an exceptionally strong, fibre is suitable for the manufacture of many products, among them being agricultural and parceling twine, ropes, sacks and bags, carpets and mats, pulp for papermaking ...

Kabati division farmers of Kitui West District are a keen lot. When rains failed three times in a row and food production suffered, they turned to commercial sisal for a new market that is developing ...

DAR ES SALAAM, July 20 (Xinhua) -- The government of Tanzania has formed an 11-member team that will look at ways and means of reviving production of sisal in the country, an official said on ...

Agnes Wanja (left) and Mary Gakii attend to a sisal farm in Kithangani area Tharaka-Nithi County. The crop has boosted the area’s economy. (Muthengi Muthomi Standard) Kithangani village, a semiarid ...