Tanzania's Richest Man Wants To Be Africa's Biggest Farmer
Tanzania's Richest Man Wants To Be Africa's Biggest Farmer
Globe-trotting billionaire, Mo Dewji, made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he claims to have the recipe for transforming Tanzania into an agribusiness powerhouse.
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He will be among top ten billionier in the world within 20 years .
Am interested in farming also
A Indian origin dude 🤔
Wazo zuri sana. It's prime time to convert some of the widespread national parks into agricultural land. The same was done at the Canadian Prairies, American dust bowl etc. Mr Dewji fanyia kazi wazo hili!
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Africans pray for him.
👊👍✌️.
Can I make things clear.Mohammed Dewji "He is not the Richest person in Tanzania.The Richest person in Tanzania is Rostam Aziz and number 2:Said Salim Bhakresa
Great Vision
It’s Mohammed Dewji not Duji😅😅😅..
This is the way to go. Let Africa 🌍 unite for a greater purpose
MOHD come invest in Kenya, people forgot to farm specialized only in corruption
Dont sell.your land to forieghn man.he will.invite indian hew will take your land
Poor reporting
Buy Bill Gates out of whatever land he owns please🤣
Small, sustainable, organic, food growing and not cash crop growing – the profits should go back into proper education, nutrition, healthcare, better social infrastructure, higher education, environment preservation, tourism, affordable housing for all – all this without pushing modernism and too much concrete.
We need such people in this continent
For those wondering, why he's white/arab..well, the reason is simply because most black billionaires/millionaire can't explain where they got their wealth from thus they prefer to be unknown.
Lies, Lies, Lies
I do hope Mo speaks to some ecologists who have a grasp of the actual facts around farm size: the majority of studies (and there have been many) show that SMALLER farms are more productive PER HECTARE. Larger farms reach DISECONOMIES OF SCALE quite quickly. Hopefully that will tweak Mo's curiosity to investigate further. A fellow African by the name of Allan Savory would be a good place to start: counterintuitively most African farms are UNDERSTOCKED with animals (even in arid areas), and productivity will increase if herds are enlarged. BUT: the way herds are managed is critical. Sustained, high productivity farming is about METHODOLOGY, NOT TECHNOLOGY. This is good news for Africa, as sustainable, high productivity farming is labour-intensive, not Tech intensive. The employment potential is huge. The trick is to give labour a stake in success. Land ownership is vital too. Many African countries have failed to recognise the property rights of their citizens and still follow a quasi-communist approach of the State or a local "chief" owning the land. This is convenient for the national politicians or the chief, but a clear disincentive for the ordinary African. Perhaps Mo could look at formulas that include farm labour owning smallish farms, but with incentives to co-operate on training, research, business and marketing strategy?
A white man? Africa is incorrigible.
The East Africa coast is very diverse with many Arabs and Indians. Africans need mechanized agriculture to sustain themselves and feed the world.
U need to Be Inclusive within CED within The Country!
Inclusion …Inclusion …as you launch This Big Dream!
~ The main problem will be that some countries with high potential for constructive & productive prosperity are their own greatest enemies, let alone having foreign investment friends, so it may not blossom to full fruition.
The Indian Lobby wants to take over Africa now
Can’t wait to meet this lovly guy with a very big Vision so I can buy hot chillies from his farm to make our Sauce .Papa Dino
A native should be the richest man in Tanzania and not a foreign Asian
I don’t trust it for anyone to have a monopoly on anything! Look at Bill Gates buying up most of the farmland in America… too much control and power given to one person!
Tanzania has been able to feed itself and produce excess food for export through the small scale farmers. Theory that small scale farmers can never feed a nation is being proved wrong. Even in the sisal production Mo works in collaboration with small scale farmers. We promote sharing in Tanzania and he knows that. Tanzania is feeding itself, and even cash crops are grown in collaboration with large scale farmers. One person holding thousand acres of land while others are landless is unacceptable here. A large scale investor in farming needs to provide expertise, processing and marketing and model farms, the rest is done by outgrowers.
So amazing dear
That footage is quite disgusting…360p?
We trust you more
Imagine 🤦🏾♀️ smmfh
it is pronounced as DE-UJI…not DEW-JI…
At the very minimum, the mention of this project can at least inspire someone (especially young Africans) about the vast potential of Africa and do something constructive about it in their different spheres. At best, this project will not yield much benefit to the common man. Existing large plantations across Africa are proof of that fact.
If Mo could pivot to buying commodities from thousands and tens of thousands of well run small farms then it would be a true win-win scenario. Decentralization is the way of nature and it cannot be bettered. Small organic farms run on the correct principles will definitely outperform large centralized farms in most ways.
Hope this agriculture will be natural organic and absolutely NO GMO!!🎉
Hogwash … desktop reporting from a business desk somewhere. 🤢
Go Mo 🔥
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If large farming involves displacing local comunities, it means no source of income to those comunities aka agraveted poverty.
1/Modern large scale farming needs no man power
2/Modern large scale farming demands huge amounts of water
3/In most places local comunities rely on natural resources for energy aka fire wood or charcoal production
It is not about understimating people's management skills, one thousand ha is too much to sucessfully handle. It is likely to fail, this is why he is beting a million of dolars out of usd250,000,000.
At this point i hope Tanzania have all ready in place GMO regulations, bcz nowdays most large farms are GMO seeds based.
It's Dewji not duji.