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Land conflicts: Govt surveys borders

Rice farmers at Mkangawalo Village in Morogoro, count their losses after a herbicide sprayed on neighbouring fields affected their crops. PHOTO|LILIAN LUCAS

What you need to know:

  • Acting on advice from experts who investigated the source of land conflicts in Morogoro, the Lands ministry has sent a new team to map the entire land and issue traditional title deeds

Morogoro. A six-member team from the National Land Use Planning Commission (NLUPC) has been dispatched  to survey borders in six villages in Mvomero District in a fresh bid to address land conflicts.

Land, Housing and Human Settlement Development minister William Lukuvi said land conflicts pitting farmers and pastoralists in the district had become a cause for concern.

Villages affected are Hembeti, Dihombo, Mkindo, Mkindo Gulioni, Kambala and Kigugu.

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Mr Lukuvi said the team would not only survey borders in the six villages, but also the entire land in the district. They  are expected to issue traditional title deeds to the villagers.

“We want to make sure that land conflicts in Morogoro, especially in Mvomero, are history. I will go through the committee recommendations and make sure that they are implemented,” the minister said at a ceremony to receive a report from a team he formed to investigate the source of land conflicts in Morogoro Region. 

The committee was led by former Morogoro Regional Commissioner Stephen Mashishanga. 

The government has for a long time now been finding it increasingly difficult to deal with ongoing conflicts between farmers and pastoralists as they fight over limited land and water resources nation.

From Coast Region to Kilimanjaro, violent and sometimes deadly clashes have been raging for decades as farmers and pastoralists scramble for resources.

Meanwhile, Mvomero District Commissioner Betty Mkwasa has appealed to President John Magufuli to revoke the ownership of 29 farms in the district, which she said have been abandoned for a long time.

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