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The World Bank VJ
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Report No.: 2749b-TA
STAFF APPRAISAL REPORT
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
March 20, 1980
Regional Projects DepartmentEastern Africa Regional Office
This document has a restricted distribution and may be used by recipients only in the performance oftheir official duties. Its contents may not otherwise be disclosed without World Bank authorization.
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CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS
Currency unit = Tanzania shilling (Tsh)US$ 0.12 = Tsh 1.0
US$ 1.00 = Tsh 8.30
US$ 1,000 = Tsh 8,300
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
1 meter (m) = 3.28 feet (ft)
1 kilometer (ki4) = 0.62 miles1 sq. meter (i ) = 10.76 sq: ft
1 hectare (ha) = 10,000 m = 2.47 acres1 kilogram (kg) = 2.204 pounds (lb)1 metric ton (m ton) = 1,000 kg = 2,204 lb
GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
APO - Assistant Production OfficerGAPEX - General Agricultural Products Export CompanyGOT - Government of Tanzania
ICB - International Competitive BiddingIERR - Internal Economic Rate of ReturnKILIMO - Ministry of AgricultureMDB - Marketing Development Bureau of KilimoMOW - Ministry of WorksPMO - Prime Minister's Office
RIMU - Road Improvement and Maintenance UnitRMEA - Regional Mission in Eastern AfricaTAN-ZAM - Tanzania-Zambia HighwayTAZARA - Tanzania-Zambia RailwayTECO - Tanganyika Extract CompanyTIB - Tanzania Investment BankTPB - Tanganyika Pyrethrum BoardUAC - Uyole Agricultural Center
GOVERNMENT FISCAL YEAR
July 1 - June 30
TPB FINANCIAL YEAR
July 1 - June 30
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TANZANIA
APPRAISAL OF THE PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Table of Contents
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I. THE AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL SECTOR ............................ 1
A. Background 1......... 1B. Agricultural Services . .... 2C. Agricultural Marketing and Pricing .... 4D. Previous Bank Group Assistance . . . 5
II. THE PYRETHRUM SUB-SECTOR 5... .. 5
A. General . . 5B. Pyrethrum Production.. ............... 6C. Cultivation, Yields and Flower Drying . 7D. Services to Pyrethrum Growers. . . 8E. Producer and Export Prices . . .11F. Future Prospects ....... . .13
III. EXECUTING AGENCIES . . .14
A. The Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board .14B. The Uyole Agricultural Center .16C. The Ministry of Works .17
IV. THE PROJECT AREA .17
V. THE PROJECT . . .19
A,- General Description ............................... . 19
B. Detailed Features .... 20C. Project Costs .... 28D. Financing ... .30
E. Accounts and Audit ............................... 35F. Monitoring and Reporting .. 35G. Evaluation ....... .. ...... ... 36
This report is based on the findings of an appraisal mission, consisting ofJ. Mullan, P. Santos, G. Onaba and K. Nathan (IDA) and R. Faun (Consultant)which visited Tanzania in April/May 1979.
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VII. PYRETHRUM MARKETS AND PRICE PROSPECTS ...................... 36
A. Uses of Pyrethrum ................. .. .................. 36B. World Production and Consumption ........... ........... 37C. Recent Price Trends ................................... 38D. Market Outlook and Price Prospects .......... .......... 40
VIII. YIELDS, FARMER RETURNS, PRODUCTION AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS .. 42
A. Flower Yields and Pyrethrin Content ....... ............ 42B. Farmer Returns and Incomes ............................ 42C. Production of Dried Flowers, Extract and Marc ......... 44D. Financial Effects on TPB ............. .. ............... 45E. Government Cash Flow Implications ........... .......... 46F. Foreign Exchange Implications ............... . .......... 47
IX. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND JUSTIFICATION ........................ 47
X. AGREEMENTS REACHED AND RECOMMENDATION ...................... 50
Table T-1 Dried Flower Production, 1963/64-1978/79Table T-2 Number of Farmers, Area Cultivated, Flower
Production in Major Zones, 1978/79Table T-3 Average Pyrethrin Content, 1962/63-1978/79Table T-4 Summary TPB Income Statements, FY75-FY79Table T-5 Summary TPB Balance Sheets, FY75-FY79Table T-6 Projected TPB 'Without Project' Income
FY80-FY90Table T-9 Road Improvement ProgramTable T-10 List of RIMU EquipmentTable T-11 RIMU Local Staff and Labor RequirementsTable T-12 Phasing of Project CostsTable T-13 Costs of Smallholder Production ComponentTable T-14 Costs of Pyrethrum Research ComponentTable T-15 Costs of TPB StrengtheningTable T-16 Costs of Roads ComponentTable T-17 Estimated Schedule of Disbursements
Table T-18 Production Costs and Returns for Pyrethrumand Maize
Table T-19 Farm IncomesTable T-20 Crop Labor Profiles and Farm Labor UtilizationTable T-21 Projected Incremental and Total Flower
ProductionTable T-22 Projected Incremental and Total Extract and
Marc ProductionTable T-23 Projected TPB 'With-Project' Income StatementsTable T-24 Projected TPB 'With-Project' Balance SheetsTable T-25 Project TPB 'With-Project' Cash FlowsTable T-26 Financial Rate of Return and Return to EquityTable T-27 Effects on Government Cash FlowTable T-28 Foreign Exchange ImplicationsTable T-29 Economic Prices of Extract and MarcTable T-30 Economic Costs and Benefits
2. Selected Documents and Data Available in the Project File
1.01 Tanzania's population (for the mainland, estimated at about 17million in 1979) is increasing at about 3% per annum. Per capita GNP for1978 is estimated at US$230. Real growth of GDP averaged about 5% per annumover 1976-78. Roughly 50% of GDP is derived from agriculture and relatedactivities, more than half of this from subsistence production. More than 90%of the population resides in rural areas, the vast majority engaged in agri-culture. About 70% of Tanzania's foreign exchange earnings from merchandizeexports are accounted for by unprocessed agricultural commodities, and afurther 7% by processed farm products. The major export commodities arecoffee, cotton, sisal, tobacco, tea and cashewnuts.
1.02 Large-scale agriculture is confined to a small number of privateestates and state farms producing sisal, coffee, tea, sugar, wheat, rice andlivestock. The largely traditionally managed national livestock herd, esti-mated at 10 million head, is grazed extensively over the 40% of the countryfree from tsetse fly.
1.03 Recent performance of the agricultural sector has been somewhatsluggish. Over the period 1967-77, the average annual rate of growth ofagricultural production was about 2.7%, less than the estimated populationgrowth. From the late 1960's onward, food crop production also failed to keeppace with population growth and, as a result, Tanzania became increasinglydependent on imports of maize, rice and wheat. The effects of this slowgrowth were exacerbated in 1973 and 1974 by the effects of a severe droughtwhich resulted in poor harvests and the need for large imports of food grains.Since 1975, overall agricultural production has recovered from the effects ofthe drought, increasing in real terms at an average annual rate of about 7%.At the same time there has been a shift in the pattern of production away fromcash export crops toward food crop production, so that cash crop productionhas stagnated and, for some crops, declined. Despite food crop productionincreases, rising demand has meant that Tanzania has continued to depend onimports of rice and wheat.
1.04 The Government of Tanzania (GOT) has undertaken a comprehensiveprogram to support the development of the agricultural sector, in conjunctionwith efforts to achieve balanced regional growth and more equitable incomedistribution. Within these objectives, GOT is paying particular attention toachieving self-sufficiency in food production and to supporting export crops.In the past few years, greater emphasis has been placed on the productiverather than the social aspects of rural development than was the case inearlier years. Beginning in 1970, GOT launched a wide-ranging program toresettle the country's rural population into villages in order to facilitate
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the provision of infrastructure and services and to encourage self-relianceand a community approach to rural development. There are now about 7,700registered villages, containing over three-quarters of Tanzania's ruralpopulation. The village is intended to be the country's primary social,economic and political unit. Basic social services, including healthfacilities, classrooms and water supply systems, are to be located in eachvillage. Economic services, including provision of credit, supply of inputs,organization of extension services and marketing of produce, are coordinatedat the village level. Economic infrastructure, such as storage godowns,processing equipment and small-scale industries, are expected to be village-owned investments. Early experience with villagization has been mixed, and itis too early to judge how effectively villages will be able to meet theirambitious goals.
B. Agricultural Services
Research
1.0.) Agricultural research in Tanzania is undertaken by a variety ofgovernmental agencies. The Ministry of Agriculture (Kilimo) is responsiblefor overall guidance of the national research effort, and operates a networkof crop and livestock research stations. Tanzania's research system hasseveral weaknesses. Kilimo has not been able to exercise effective controland, as a result, priorities have not always been firmly established, theregional emphasis has been unclear, and research resources have not beenallocated in accordance with development priorities. There is a need forgreater focus on improving knowledge about Tanzania's various agro-economiczones, and on improving the farming systems in these zones through a greateremphasis on field testing. The links between research and extension are weak,partly as a result of the failure of the Regions, which are responsib:Le forextension, to coordinate with Kilimo which is in charge of research andtraining.
1.06 Agricultural research in Tanzania is increasingly becoming linkedwith the various international agricultural research institutes under theConsultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). IDA isintending to assist, through a proposed Agricultural Research Project, instrengthening the ability of the Tanzanian research system to carry out fieldtesting, and to forge effective links with the agricultural extension services.The Tanzanian research system also receives support under the Tabora RuralDevelopment Project (Cr. 703-TA) and the Mwanza/Shinyanga Rural DevelopmentProject (Cr. 803-TA).
Extension
1.07 Responsibility for agricultural extension in Tanzania is divridedbetween Kilimo (which trains extension staff), the twenty regional admin-istrations (which are responsible for the day-to-day management of about halfof the country's extension staff) and some crop parastatals (which employ theremaining extension staff). In early 1978, a total of 100 graduates, 3,000
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field officers with formal diploma- or certificate- level training, and 3,500field assistants with little formal training, were involved in extension work.Extension efforts have been relatively ineffective. As a result of the weakresearch base, relatively few proven technical packages are available. Fieldstaff are inadequately trained and supervised, and receive limited logisticalsupport. The situation was worsened in 1978 by the decision of Government toappoint salaried Village Managers to each registered village. Of the 4,000Village Managers already appointed, many came from the better-trained ranks ofthe extension services. The relationship between Village Managers, extensionagents and Village Management Technicians 1/ remains unclear, and Kilimo andthe Prime Mfinister's Office (which has overall responsibility for regionaladministration) hold differing views on how extension should be organized inthe future. IDA has made some proposals to Government on the re-organizationof the extension service, using the principles of the 'training and visit'system adapted to Tanzania conditions, and it is expected that the extensionservices in Mwanza and Shinyanga regions will be reorganized along these linesas part of the IDA-supported Rural Development Project for these regions (Cr.803-TA). Kilimo is currently drawing up a comprehensive plan for the overalldevelopment of agricultural extension. However, progress on the improvementof extension services has been, and is likely to continue to be, slow.
Credit
1.08 The major agencies involved in the provision of credit to theagricultural sector are the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) and the TanzaniaRural Development Bank (TRDB). NBC is the sole source of short-term credit toparastatals for produce marketing, and in addition provides about two-thirdsof the total production credit, mainly to large estates. TRDB provides long,medium and short-term agricultural credit, administers special funds on behalfof Government, and has been supported by the Bank Group as the major creditchannel for funds disbursed for direct use by farmers. A project to strengthenTRDB has recently been negotiated.
Rural Transport Services
1.09 An adequate road transport system is needed to ensure the efficientmovement of crops to market centers and railheads, and to support timelydelivery of agricultural inputs to the farmers. Despite Government's effortsto upgrade the road network, only about 10 percent of the 33,400 km of roadsprovide reliable, all weather service. The remainder are, in general, littlemore than earth tracks impassable in the rainy seasons. Rural roads are inespecially poor condition. In addition, the trucking fleet available for useby parastatals (either through ownership or hire) has been limited, thusmaking crop movement even more difficult. Crop marketing has suffered fromhigh transport costs, and deterioration of crops in villages with inadequatestorage facilities. Poor transport facilities cause delays in payment tovillages and often dictate that villages receive sums large enough to handlecrops over extended periods, leading to inadequate supervision and accountingof funds advanced for purchases. Current GOT action to address these
1/ For a description of the Village Management Technician Program, see theStaff Appraisal Report for the Fifth Education Project (Cr. 607-TA).
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problems is directed mainly at the public sector, and includes the provisionof staff training and equipment under several IDA-assisted projects, 1/ andthe recent creation of betterment and maintenance units, which are upgradingselected secondary roads in several regions. Assistance to the public truck-ing industry is being provided through the IDA- supported Trucking IndustryRehabilitation and Improvement Project (Cr. 743-TA). This has not provedsufficient to overcome transport bottlenecks in the critical area of cropprocurement and GOT, under IDA assisted projects 2/, has provided parastatalswith additional transport facilities.
C. Agricultural Marketing and Pricing
Marketing
1.10 In May 1976, the Primary Cooperative Societies and Unions, whichformerly played an important role in agricultural marketing, were dissolvedand their functions transferred to other district, regional and nationalorgetnizations, of which the most prominent are various parastatal bodies. Atpresent, there are separate parastatal organizations for coffee, cotton,foodgrains, sisal, tobacco, tea, cashewnuts, sugar, livestock and dairyproducts and pyrethrum; many have been established quite recently. Generally,ambitious expectations have placed severe strains on their physical andmanagerial resources; they not only provide marketing services to villages butalso provide processing services and have responsibilities for increasingproduction. The marketing system in Tanzania suffers from lack of comlpetition,high costs, poor service and slow payments to farmers. The Government isaware of these problems, and the Standing Committee on Parastatal Organizationis reviewing the structure and managerial performance of parastatals. TheBank Group is assisting in this process through its analysis of parastatalsinvclved in recent and proposed Bank Group loans and credits; i.e. the Cashew-nut Authority, the Tobacco Authority, the Tea Authority and the NationalMilling Corporation.
Pricing
1.11 The control of producer, wholesale and retail prices of major cropsis an important tool of GOT policy. Producer prices of all principal exportcrops except sisal and coffee are controlled as are major food crops exceptvegetables, fruits, fish and eggs. Responsibility for formulating pricingrecommendations rests with Kilimo, whose Marketing Development Bureau (MDB)
1/ These include the Hlighways Maintenance Project (Cr. 507-TA), and roadcomponents in the Tabora Regional Development Project (Cr. 703-TA), theGeita Cotton Project (Cr. 454-TA), the Mwanza/Shinyanga Rural DevelopmentProject (Cr. 803-TA) and Kigoma Rural Development Project (Cr. 508-TA).
2/ Including a number of trucks to the Tobacco Authority of Tanzania (TAT)under the Tobacco Handling Project (Cr. 802-TA) and to NMC, financed byBADEA (the Arab Bank for Economic Development) under the National MaizeProject (Cr. 606-TA).
carries out annual reviews of producer prices for major crops, taking intoaccount production costs, the need for incentives to producers, inter-regionalequity and the sales revenues and operating costs of marketing agencies. TheMDB, which was established in 1970 with financial assistance from UNDP andtechnical assistance from FAO, has progressively developed its skills in priceanalysis and formulation. MDB is currently being financed by IDA, on aprovisional basis, under the National Maize Project (Cr. 606-TA) and under theproposed Grain Storage and Milling Project would receive further IDA funds andlong-term technical assistance. During supervision of the Grain Storage andMilling Project, the Bank would continue and strengthen its dialogue with
Government on pricing.
D. Previous Bank Group Assistance
1.12 Previous Bank Group assistance to the agricultural sector in Tanzaniahas included IDA credits totalling US$145.2 million and IBRD Loans totallingUS$37.0 million for thirteen agricultural and three rural development projects.Agricultural projects include one for agricultural credit, three for livestock,two for tobacco and one each for the development of production of tea, sugar,cashewnuts, maize, fish, forestry products and cotton. Rural DevelopmentProjects have been financed by IDA in the Kigoma, Tabora, and the Mwanza andShinyanga regions. Project Performance Audit Reports for two projects (theFlue-Cured Tobacco Project and the Smallholder Tea Development Project) haverecently been prepared. In both cases, the economic rate of return is satis-factory. However, implementation experience highlighted the weakness of theparastatals involved, and the consequent need for considerable investment ininstitution-building. These lessons have been taken into account in the designof this Project.
II. THE PYRETHRUM SUB-SECTOR
A. General
2.01 The pyrethrum plant (Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium) is a smallperennial growing to some 60 cm in height. It has one of the longest historiesof botanical substances used to control insect pests and has been commerciallyavailable for 150 years. Its dried flowers yield an extract, the activeingredients of which, pyrethrins, have excellent insecticidal properties withno adverse environmental side effects. The crop is grown in about sixteencountries, five of which, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ecuador and Papua NewGuinea (in descending order of importance), produce over 97% of the world'soutput.
2.02 Growing conditions. Pyrethrum growing requires an altitude of1,800 m or above with a well distributed rainfall of 1,000 mm or more per yearand temperatures that fall to levels a little above freezing. Low temperaturesstimulate flower production. The plant prefers light, loamy soils, slightlyalkaline, but it has a fair degree of tolerance to acidity. It needs an openunshaded position and does not compete well with weed growth.
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2.03 Processing. The active insecticidal ingredients referred to as'pyrethrins' are obtained from dried crushed pyrethrum flowers by means of asolvent extraction process. The crude extract thus obtained is about 25%pyrethrins, the remainder being soluble oleo-resins also extracted from theflowers. The residue from extraction is referred to as 'pyrethrum marc,'which has some commercial value since it contains a low concentration ofpyrethrins, as well as being relatively rich in protein and hence in demand asa cattle feed ingredient. Crude extract can be purified in various degrees.Some of the oleo-resins can be removed from the crude extract by centrifuging,producing 'partially-dewaxed' extract. Further purification requires refiningby solution in further organic solvents. This produces a decolorized 'pale'extract.
2.04 Properties. Pyrethrum is basically a 'contact' insecticide, thatis, one which is absorbed through the body wall. It has a wider spectrum ofactivity than many other insecticides, and is effective against all commonhousehold insects. It has extemely low mammalian toxicity, and its long andimpressive safety record in actual use has led pesticide authorities toclassify it as one of the very few virtually non-hazardous insecticidalmaterials. Pyrethrum has the ability both to paralyze flying insects ('knock-down') and to kill them after a relatively short period. Exposure of crawlinginsects to pyrethrum results in temporarily increased activity; the insectsleave their hiding places and are thus further exposed to the chemical.Pyrethrum has a good repellent effect, so that new insects do not enter anytreated area. Despite its long use, pyrethrum does not seem to have causedthe development of any significant degree of immunity in treated insectpopulations. Unlike many synthetic insecticides, pyrethrum is rapidly de-composed after use into harmless compounds, especially when exposed to directsunlight.
B. Pyrethrum Production
2.05 In Tanzania, commercial pyrethrum cultivation began in the 1930's,on large farms and estates owned by expatriates in the highlands of the Mbeyaand Iringa regions of Southern Tanzania. During the 1950's, production spreadto the area around Mount Kilimanjaro, where land in high-altitude forestreserves was leased to large-scale pyrethrum growers. In the early 1960's,smallholders in Mbeya and Iringa regions were encouraged, by the distributionof pLanting material and the provision of extension and marketing services, tobegin pyrethrum production. As a result, production of dried flowers expandedfrom 2,300 m tons in 1963 to over 6,300 m tons in 1967. This expansioncoincided with a similar expansion in Kenya, and resulted in world over-production and marketing problems. The consequent reduction in pyrethrumprices, together with rising agricultural wages and the progressive expirationof forest leases, eliminated most of the large-scale producers, and reducedproduction by smallholders. Thus, overall production of dried flowers fell to2,416 m tons by 1969/70. Between then and 1974-75, production fluctuatedbetween 2,700 m tons and 4,700 m tons. From 1974/75, however, there has beena steady downward trend in production, from 4,700 m tons in 1974/75, to a lowof about 1,600 m tons in 1978/79. This decline resulted from producer prices
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for pyrethrum that were unattractive in relation to other prices (particularlyof maize) and from a lack of improved planting material. Detailed productionfigures for the period 1963/64 to 1978/79 are given in Table T-1 in Annex 1.
2.06 Over 95% of dried flower production now comes from the highlandareas of Mbeya and Iringa, where pyrethrum is grown almost exclusivelyby smallholders. Pyrethrum production by smallholders has also recentlystarted in Rukwa and Ruvuma regions, where physical and climate conditions arealso suitable. No accurate data exist on the number of growers involved, butit is currently estimated that about 20,000 smallholder families cultivate anaverage of 0.4 ha of pyrethrum each, giving a total area under the crop ofabout 8,000 ha. A more detailed estimate of the number of growers, areacultivated and dried flower production within each of the major productionzones is given in Annex 1, Table T-2. TPB operates two large farms (Mahenyeand Ilinde) in the Southern Highlands. Production from these is less than1% of total production and TPB does not intend to expand these productionactivities. Instead, these farms would be used under the Project for seedproduction and as bulking centers (paras. 5.04, 5.08).
C. Cultivation, Yields and Flower Drying
Cultivation
2.07 The average size of pyrethrum growing farms is about 2 ha. Culti-vation is mainly by hand; only in isolated cases are oxen or tractors used.Aside from the low availability of mechanized or animal power the steepness ofthe terrain usually precludes anything but hand cultivation. Trials andobservations have shown that pyrethrum will come into full flower productionin the second and third year and that production rapidly declines thereafter.In view of the soil pulverizing effect of the crop and the hazard of 'root-knotnematodes' it is necessary to uproot every third year, and to rotate witheither a grain crop or a period of fallow. Plant propagation is by seedlingsraised from seed or by splitting and replanting existing plants. Pickingtakes place the year round, but there are two flushes of flowers; the mainflush is in September-October and the lighter one in February-April.
Yields and Pyrethrin Content
2.08 No systematic data series exist detailing the yields of driedflowers. According to a survey of smallholders carried out in 1974 1/, theaverage annual yield of dried flowers per ha was 270 kg. Since then, staff ofthe Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board (TPB) estimate that yields have been falling,as a result of adverse climatic conditions and because of aging of plants in
1/ C. Bremer Jespersen, Pyrethrum in the Southern Highlands, 1974.
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the absence of replanting- Current average annual yields are put at 200 kgper ha, with yields of 100 kg in the first year and 250 kgs in both thesecond and third years. The pyrethrin content of dried flowers, which ismeasured prior to processing (para. 2.19), depends on the quality of theplanting material, on climatic conditions and on the efficiency -of dryingand marketing operations. Over the last sixteen years for which figures areavailable, pyrethrin content remained fairly stable around an average of about1.25% until 1970/71 since when it has steadily declined to the 1.1% averageoverall content recorded in 1978/79. This trend reflects the decline in largescale production, the absence of improved replanting material and, for thelast three seasons, adverse weather conditions. Details of average pyrethrincontents since 1962/63 are given in Table T-3 in Annex 1.
2.09 Flower drying. Pyrethrum flowers require drying before they canbe collected from farmers for processing. The aim is to reduce the moisturecontent from around 80% to 10% with minimum loss in dry matter and pyrethrins,which are heat sensitive and subject to oxidation. Rapid drying with aminimum of heat is therefore desirable. Natural sun drying is employed as faras possible. In some areas, however, limited sunshine hours and wet weatherfor most of the year make natural drying difficult. Indoor drying on beamsover the fire is not fully satisfactory but must be used in several areas.Drying in portable driers or barns is much more efficient, reducing the dryingtime from 12 days to 12 hours, or less. TPB has 50 small, portable driers onloan to villages in the Iringa Region and another 50 in Mbeya. Artificaldrying is constrained by scarcity of fuel; pyrethrum growing areas have fewtrees and the cost of delivering alternative fuels to isolated highlandstations is prohibitive. There is also scope for increasing the fuel effi-ciency of driers by design improvements. The Project would provide funds fora study by consultants of the extent of the drying problem and of possiblesolutions to it, and for construction of additional artificial drying capacity,should this prove feasible (para. 5.11).
D. Services to Pvrethrum Growers
Resea_rch
2.10 Pyrethrum research was started in the late 1950's at Igeri in IringaRegion. At that time, considerable work in plant selection was carried out byresearch staff with the assistance of pyrethrum field staff and growers. In1968, research was halted, following the decline in market prospects (para.2.05), and it was not until 1974 that research on pyrethrum was resumed. Atpresent pyrethrum research is carried out by staff of the Uyole AgriculturalCenter (UAC) (para. 3.11) at Uyole itself and at three offstations. Theemphasis of this research program is on the selection and multiplicationof high yielding plants which have flowers with a high pyrethrin content.Agronomic research, for example on the use of fertilizers, crop rotation,weeding and spacing, is also carried out. The present selection program isunderstaffed and too small to produce results in a reasonable period; it wouldbe strengthened and expanded under the Project (paras. 5.14-5.16). The statusof research on agronomy is generally satisfactory.
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Extension
2.11 Pyrethrum growers are provided with a low level of extension ser-vice. The Mbeya regional administration employs about one hundred extensionagents to cover over 500 villages, and in Iringa there are about sixty re-gional field staff to cover almost 600 villages. Until 1977, the regionalextension staff were solely responsible for pyrethrum extension. Sincethen, the Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board (TPB) has employed some Assistant Pro-duction Officers (APO's). TPB currently has eight APO's in Iringa Region (ofwhom three are certificate holders while the remainder have only short-coursetraining) and five APO's in Mbeya (of whom only one is a certificate holder).On average, each APO is therefore responsible for about 1,500 growers. TPB'slong-term objective is that these APO's should work through the region'svillage-level extension workers, and act as specialist pyrethrum advisers. Atpresent, the weaknesses of the regional extension service preclude this.
2.12 This low intensity of extension is in part responsible for therelatively low flower yields obtained in the Project area. However, theproblems facing the extension services are manifold and deep-rooted, (para.1.07) and it would be unrealistic to expect major improvement during thenext few years. The Project therefore provides for only a modest expansion ofTPB's field staff (para. 5.10) to enable TPB to manage the production anddistribution under the Project of improved planting material, and accordinglyonly modest improvements in flower yield are projected (para. 8.01).
Credit
2.13 Since pyrethrum requires virtually no material inputs other thanplanting material, and since planting material has been provided to farmersfree of charge, there has been no need for the provision of production creditfor pyrethrum growing. Some pyrethrum growers (the exact proportion is notknown, but it is likely to be less than 20 percent) receive credit for maizeproduction through the National Maize Project (supported by IDA Credit 606-TA).
Marketing and Processing
2.14 Primary Marketing and Transport. TPB buys dried flowers onlyfrom licensed growers. Flowers are purchased on a cash basis. Licenses areissued to individuals cultivating 2 ha or more of pyrethrum, or to groupsof farmers who collectively cultivate more than 2 ha. Individual licenseswere introduced in 1978/79, to encourage farmers to care for their crop;such license holders can sell their flowers either directly to TPB or throughtheir village. There are about 800 individuals at present with licensesand 300 active groups. A registration number is used to distinguish allflowers produced by the license holder. Most group licenses are held byvillages and about 90 are empowered by TPB to act as buying agents and receivea fee on pyrethrum that they handle. To qualify as agents, villages must beregistered, have a lockable store and a literate Village Manager or Secretary.Production from villages which are not TPB agents is handled by purchasingclerks operating from about 20 buying centers/stores. Purchased flowers
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are brought to the buying centers by four-wheel drive vehicles. The buyingcenters were originally built and owned by cooperative societies which arenow defunct and in the hands of a liquidator to whom TPB pays rent. Ihesestores are generally in poor condition. New market centers/stores would beconstructed in strategic locations under the Project (para. 5.12). Villagesin isolated areas are served by TPB mobile purchasing units.
2.15 Dried flowers are taken in 7-ton trucks from the villages and TPBbuying centers to four main stores operated by TPB in Mbeya, Njombe, Chimalaand Iringa (Map IBRD 14436) and from there by truck or truck and rail toArusha for processing. These operations are seriously constrained, however,by the poor state of the district and feeder roads and by poor management andorganization of the TPB transport fleet which is, in any case, insufficient.The long haul transport situation will be greatly improved when the newMafinga extracting plant comes on stream in 1980 (para. 2.16). The othertransport problems are addressed under the Project by the provision of trucksand four wheel drive vehicles to TPB (para. 5.13), by the improvement of TPBtransport management (para. 5.19) and by a program of road improvement (paras.5.23-5.27).
2.16 Processing. Flower processing is currently undertaken by theTanganyika Extract Company (TECO) (para. 3.10) in Arusha. The factory, whichwas built in 1961, has an installed capacity of around 6,000 tons of driedflowers. Another processing plant with a capacity of about 4,600 tons isunder construction by TPB at Mafinga (Iringa Region) and is expected to beoperational by mid-1980. When the Mafinga plant starts to operate, the Arushaplant will no longer be required, since practically no production now comesfrom the Arusha area, and since the Mafinga plant, which is designed forultimate expansion to 8,500 metric tons capacity, will be sufficient to handleproduction for the foreseeable future. During negotiations, GOT indicatedthat, once the Mafinga plant is operation, the Arusha plant would be closed,its Staff transferred to Mafinga, and any flower production from the Arusharegion sold as pyrethrum powder, which would be produced by an existing smallpowder plant and for which there is a local market.
2.17 Refining. Tanzania currently exports crude extract containing 25%pyrethrins. This product has a high wax content and requires refining for usein aerosols. The possibility of constructing a refinery in Tanzania is underconsideration by GOT, but a detailed feasibility study has yet to be carriedout. While in the long run it is probably desirable for Tanzania to establishits own refining capacity to diversify its market outlets, no marketingproblems for crude extract are expected over the next five years, during whichpyret:hrum will be in short supply in world markets (para. 7.15). Constructionof a refinery should be delayed until flower production has increased sub-stantially, until TPB's financial position (para. 3.09) can support suchan irnvestment and until the operations of a new refinery in Rwanda can beevaluated. This refinery is due to come on stream at the end of 1980 andincorporates a technology which is considerably cheaper than available alter-natives.
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2.18 Export Marketing. In 1974, responsibility for export marketing ofpyrethrum extract and marc passed from Mitchell Cotts to TECO and the GeneralAgricultural Products Export Company (GAPEX), a parastatal. In 1977, TPBassumed responsibility for these activities. Pyrethrum products are sold ona contract basis, at prices announced in advance by TPB after consultationwith Kenya and Rwanda, the world's other major producers. The volume ofexports over the last five calendar years for which data are available istabulated below:
Extract exports have been falling since 1975, as flower production has dec-lined. Exports of marc have been erratic, as sales are less regular, andstocks are often carried over from one year to the next. At the presenttime, 80% of Tanzania's exports of pyrethrum extract go to the US, and 16%to Canada. Almost all of the pyrethrum marc exported goes to Japan.
E. Producer and Export Prices
Flower Prices
2.19 The price paid to growers for dried flowers depends on the pyrethrincontent of the flowers, as measured when the flowers arrive at the processingfactory. At the time of purchase, farmers are paid in cash the price for thelowest grade; a second payment is made as appropriate after the pyrethrincontent has been determined. In 1974/75, TPB experimented with payment of auniform price, irrespective of pyrethrin content. This practice was discon-tinued after a year, since it appeared to have an adverse effect on growerincentives, and a quality-related price structure was reinstated in 1975/76.
2.20 The current grading system provides for five grades, ranging fromflowers with less than 1.10% pyrethrins by increments to flowers with pyre-thrin contents in excess of 1.40%. Producer prices are set by GOT (para 1.11)
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taking into account TPB's sales realizations and costs of operations, andfarmer incentives relative to other crops. Recent producer prices are de-tailed below:
over 1.51% 6.50 6.50 over 1.40% 7.50 11.001.31-1.50% 5.50 6.00 1.30-1.39% 7.00 9.501.21-1.30% 4.21 5.00 1.20-1.29% 6.50 8.50less than 1.20% 4.00 4.60 1.10-1.19 6.00 7.50
Less than 1.10% 5.50 6.50
1/ These dates refer to marketing years, running from July 1 to June 30.
Prices have been increased substantially since 1977/78. In particular,prices of the lowest grade, which accounts for over 80% of flower purchases,have risen by over 60%. At current prices, pyrethrum provides attractivereturns to smallholders (para. 8.04). Assurances were obtained during negotia-tions that, in order to maintain producer incentives, the Borrower wouldcontinue to review and adjust producer prices annually taking into accountpricess, TPB costs and producer prices of other crops. These matters would beperiodically discussed by GOT and IDA in the course of IDA's involvemenlt withMDB (para. 1.11).
JXPOrt Prices
2.21 Export prices for extract and marc over the period 1974-1979 aregiven below:
The export price of pyrethrum extract has risen by over 150% since 1974, andthe price of marc has almost doubled over the same period. The increase inprices has been particularly marked in 1979. These increases reflect thegrowing shortage of pyrethrum extract and marc on world markets, as productionin Kenya and Tanzania, which accounts for about 90% of total world production,has declined (para 7.04).
F. Future Prospects
Prices
2.22 An analysis of future price prospects (see Chapter 7 of this reportfor details) concludes that the export price of pyrethrum extract and marc islikely to remain in real terms, at current levels through 1983/84, reflectingcontinued supply shortages in world markets. For the following five years,prices are expected to fall by 5% per year in real terms as the world supplyand demand situation progressively returns to balance. Correspondingly,prices paid to producers for dried flowers are expected to remain at presentlevels in real terms through 1983/84, and thereafter, in order to preserveTPB's financial position, to decline in real terms. Analysis indicates that togive TPB adequate margins, producer prices need to fall by 2% per year in realterms and would then stabilize in 1988/89 at levels equivalent to about 90% ofpresent producer prices. Analysis of farmer returns (para. 8.03) indicatesthat pyrethrum production would remain attractive even at these reduced levelsof producer prices.
Production
2.23 Production of dried flowers is expected to increase from the lowlevels of 1978/79 as a result of three factors. Firstly, producer priceincreases for the 1979/80 marketing year are beginning to result in an in-crease in area planted to pyrethrum. Secondly, flower yields have undoubtedlybeen depressed during the past three years by adverse weather conditions.Thirdly, a pyrethrum development program is being undertaken in Iringa Regionas part of a broader program of development in Iringa, supported by theEuropean Community. Under this program, sufficient planting material for upto 4,000 ha of pyrethrum is expected to be made available to farmers over thenext three years. The expected future pattern of production, (without Projectinvestments) is expected to be:
By 1983, a total of about 33,000 farmers are expected to be growing pyrethrum,producing almost 3,100 m tons of dried flowers annually.
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III. EXECUTING AGENCIES
A. The Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board
Background
3.01 The Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board (TPB) was established by the PyrethrumOrdinance (Amendment) Act of 1965. Until 1974, TPB functioned solely asthe body responsible for licensing growers. In 1974, TPB acquired the sharesof the Tanganyika Extract Company (TECO) (para. 3.10) from the former owners,Mitchell Cotts, and thus assumed responsibility for flower processing. In1976, TPB took over from cooperative societies (which were dissolved bythe Government in that year) responsibility for flower purchase from farmers.In 1977, TPB took over responsibility for pyrethrum product marketing fromGAPEX and TECO.
3.02 The broad objectives of TPB are the promotion and supervision ofthe pyrethrum industry, and the development of increased production. Itspresent activities include the purchase of pyrethrum flowers, the marketingof pyrethrum products, the promotion of research, the operation of two large-scale farms, the development of production and, once the Mafinga extractplant (para. 2.16) is commissioned, the processing of pyrethrum flowers.
Organization and Management
3.03 TPB is controlled by a Board of fifteen directors, appointed by theMinLster of Agriculture, and chaired by an Executive Chairman who is appointedby the President of the Republic of Tanzania. The Board includes representa-tives of the Ministries of Agriculture (Kilimo) and Finance and Planning,the Regional Development Directors of Iringa, Mbeya and Arusha Regions, theGeneral Manager of TECO and representatives of growers. Day-to-day respon-sibility for TPB operations rests with the Executive Officer, who is also aPresidential appointee, and to whom all department heads report.
3.04 TPB's headquarters is presently in Dar-es-Salaam. This sitingis inappropriate, since it is distant both from the production areas andfrom the processing facilities. Provision would be made under the Project(para. 5.21) for the head office of TPB to be relocated to Iringa. TPBcurrently employs 230 persons, and is organized into four headquarters depart-ments and three regional offices; a Manufacturing Department will be addedonce the Mafinga plant is commissioned (Chart C-1, Annex 1). TheAdmiinistration Department is in charge of personnel management, publicity andthe provision of general services such as procurement. The Finance Departmentis responsible for maintaining accounts, for controlling cash flows and formoniitoring TPB's overall financial position. The Marketing Department isresponsible for sales (both domestic and export) of pyrethrum extract andother products. The Planning and Production Department is responsible foroverall planning of TPB operations, for operating TPB's two large farms, andfor providing marketing and extension services to producers. TPB's RegionalOffices are in Arusha, Mbeya and Iringa Regions; the Iringa Region would have
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two District Offices, in Mufindi and Makete Districts, once regional anddistrict office accommodation has been constructed under the Project (para.5.21).
3.05 TPB's current staffing is not commensurate with its responsibili-ties, which have increased markedly since 1974. Weaknesses are particularlyevident within the Finance Department, which lacks sufficient qualifiedpersonnel and effective accounting systems and controls, and within thePlanning and Production Department, which has insufficient qualified technicalstaff. TPB's staffing, particularly within these two departments, wouldtherefore be strengthened under the Project (para. 5.18).
Finances
3.06 Largely as a result of staff weaknesses within the Finance Depart-ment, TPB's accounts are not up-to-date. The last audited accounts relateto the year ending June 30, 1977 (FY77), and accounts for FY78 and FY79 areundergoing audit at present. Appraisal of TPB's current financial status isthus difficult. Summary income statements and balance sheets for FY75 - FY79are presented in Tables T-4 and T-5 respectively, in Annex 1. Figures forFY75, FY76 and FY77 are audited, figures for FY78 are from draft accounts andfigures for FY79 are based on TPB and IDA staff estimates.
3.07 TPB made after-tax profits of Tsh 104,000 in FY75 and Tsh 497,000in FY76. In these years, TPB's income was derived only from managementfees (based on export realization) and a levy (based on TECO throughout)which were paid to TPB by TECO. In 1977, TPB purchased flowers from growersand sold them to TECO for processing. TPB made a small loss (of Tsh 53,000)in that year. In FY78, when TPB began marketing pyrethrum products on itsown account, a loss of Tsh 1.2 million (equal to 5% of revenue) was made.These losses resulted from TPB's taking over responsibility for marketing (andthus raising its costs) while producer prices (set by Kilimo) had not beenadjusted to reflect this. In FY79, despite rising export prices, TPB isestimated to have a net deficit of about Tsh 3 million, as a result of decliningflower production (para. 2.05).
3.08 TPB's net worth (representing the sum of an initial capital grantfrom GOT, capital grants for smallholder development and for constructionof the Mafinga plant, and accumulated net income) rose from Tsh 2.3 millionin FY75 to an estimated Tsh 32 million in FY79. TPB had no long-term debt inFY75, but at the end of FY79 had accumulated, Tsh 21.6 million in long-termloans from the Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) to finance construction of theMafinga plant. However, the long-term debt to net worth ratio remains satis-factory at 0.6:1. TPB had an overdraft estimated at Tsh 18 million at endFY79, and a current assets/current liabilities ratio of 0.9:1. Overall, TPB'sliquidity is thus somewhat strained.
3.09 Projections, in the 'without-Project' situation, of TPB's incomestatements, balance sheets and cash flows (in current price terms) for theyears FY80 through FY90 are given in Annex 1, Tables T-6, T-7 and T-8 respec-tively. These tables have been drawn up on the basis of producer prices,
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export prices and production figures given in paras. 2.21 and 2.22. Over thisperiod, except for FY80 and FY81 (when losses of Tsh 2.7 million and Tsh 1.1million respectively are expected), TPF is expected to earn consistentlypositive net incomes, which total Tsh 19.7 million (in current prices) overthe period. The balance sheet is expected to improve. Total n. worth wouldrise to Tsh 58.3 million, all long-term loans would repaid, and the currentassets/current liabilities ratio would remain satisfactory throughout theperiod. The cash flow statements indicate a cumulative cash inflow over theperiod of Tsh 49 million which wgould result in TPB's accumulating surpluscash reserves of Tsh 30.9 million, wnich would be available for furtherinvestment or distribution as dividends. TPB's future financial prospects
are therefore satisfactory.
The 'Tanganyika Extract Company
3.10 The Tanganyika Extract Company (TECO) was established in 1962 asa private company controlled by Mitchell Cotts (a British company). TECO'sfunction was to purchase and process dried flowers and to market pyrethrumproducts. In 1974, TECO was nationalized, and its shares held by TPB onbeha:Lf of GOT. TECO-s main asset is an extract plant in Arusha. However,the need for this plant will be eliminated once TPB's Mafinga plant comeson stream, and TECO would thus have no part in Project execution.
B. The Uyole Agricultural Center
3.11 The Uyole Agricultural Center (UAC) was initially established atUIyole in Mbeya Region by GOT with assistance from Denmark, Finland, Iceland,Norway and Sweden as an Agricultural Research and Training Institute, intendedto serve the regions of Mbeya, Iringa, Rukwa and Ruvuma. Most of the researchdepartments were established by 1973, and by the end of 1975, the trainingprogram was fully operational. In 1976, UAC assumed its present legal statusas a public corporation, w7holly owmed by GOT. TJAC is controlled by a Boardof Directors, appointed by the Minister of Agriculture. Responsibility forthe day-to-day operations of UAC rests with the Managing Director, who is apresidential appointee. The objectives of UAC are to carry out a production-oriented program of applied research, to deal with the problems of surroundingregions, and to provide diploma-level, certificate-level and short-coursetraining for agricultural staff.
3.12 The research activities of UAC are carried out by nine researchdepartments, covering crop husbandry, plant breeding, agro-economics agricul-tural engineering, horticulture, plant protection, soil science, pasture,agronomy, and livestock. UAC carries out research work at six offstations(of which three are used for pyrethrum research) in addition to Uyole. Thetraining activities at UAC cover eleven subjects - agricultural extension,agricultural science, agro-economics, agricultural engineering, agronomy,animal production, food processing, home economics, horticulture, land useplanning and veterinary science.
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C. Ministry of Works
3.13 The Ministry of Works (MOW) is primarily responsible for the plan-ning of highway investments and for the reconstruction and maintenance of
trunk roads. Maintenance of the secondary and tertiary road network isthe responsibility of the regional administrations, which also carry outthe maintenance of trunk roads, using equipment and funds from MOW. MOWalso gives administrative and technical support to several units set upunder externally-financed projects for the improvement and maintenance offeeder roads in rural areas. These include units set up under the IDA-financed Third Highway Project (Cr. 265-TA) and Tea Project (Cr. 287-TA), andfeeder road betterment units set up with Norwegian aid. MOW's long-termpolicy is to disengage itself from involvement in feeder road improvement andmaintenance, but the serious problems of organization, staffing, trainingand lack of equipment that affect regional roads departments make suchdisengagement infeasible in the short term.
3.14 MOW is organized into six operating divisions: Buildings Division,Mechanical Division, Roads and Aerodromes Division, Manpower Department andAdministration-Division, Planning Division and Government Stores. Respon-sibility for road construction and maintenance rests with the Roads andAerodromes Division, whose Director is a road engineer. The Division suffersfrom a shortage of qualified staff. Hence, technical assistance staff wouldbe financed under the Project to implement the Project's proposed feeder roadimprovement and maintenance component (paras. 5.23-5.27).
IV. THE PROJECT AREA
Altitude, Climate and Soils
4.01 The Project would be implemented in the pyrethrum-growing highlandareas of the Iringa and Mbeya Regions of Southern Tanzania (see Map IBRD14436), which comprise six major zones: Umalila, Mporoto, Uwanje, Ukinga,Ubena and Ludewa. The Pyrethrum growing areas range in altitude from 1,700 mto 2,700 m. Rainfall, which occurs in a single rainy season (December toApril at the lower altitudes, November to May at higher altitudes), rangesfrom about 1,000 mm per year in parts of Umalila and Ubena, to over 1,800 mmin parts of Ukinga. Soils in the pyrethrum growing areas encompass redclays, yellow clays, dark-brown loams of volcanic origin, sandy loams andred sandy soils which are slightly acidic. These conditions are good forpyrethrum cultivation (para. 2.02).
Farming Patterns
4.02 Average cultivated area per family on pyrethrum - growing farmsranges from about 1.4 ha in Mporoto zone to over 2.6 ha in Ludewa zone. Otherwidely-grown crops are maize, wheat and Irish potatoes. Maize is particularlyimportant in the Umalila and Ubena areas. Cropping patterns on a typicalpyrethrum-growing farm in each of the main pyrethrum-growing areas are esti-
4.03 The main transport arteries in Mbeya and Iringa Regions are theTanzania-Zambia (TAN-ZAM) highway and the TAZARA railway also linking Tanzaniato Zambia (Map IBRD 14436). The TAN-ZAM highway has been upgraded to two-laneasphalt standards with assistance from USAID and from the Bank Group underthe Second Highway Project (Loan 586-TA and Credit 142-TA). Pyrethrum trafficuses this highway in preference to the TAZARA railway, which is experiencingsevere operational problems, and this preference is likely to continue in thefuture, since the new extract plant at Mafinga is not located on the railway.
4.04 In the pyrethrum-growing areas, a network of district and feederroads provides access to the villages where pyrethrum is grown (Map IBRD14386). This network connects with the TAN-ZAM highway and with the pavedNbeya-Lake Nyasa road via local main and regional roads, which are in arelatively satisfactory condition and passable in all weathers. Districtand f'eeder roads, however, generally consist of bare tracks which can benegotiated only with difficulty in the dry season and which are impassableduring the rains. There is extensive rutting and potholing, culverts aremissing, and drainage ditches are inadequate and badly maintained. As aresult, transport costs are high and vehicle life shorts
4.05 Pyrethrum flowers are produced, and thus require to be marketed,year-round, and yields are in fact highest during the rains. The delays inmarketing and processing which occur as a result of the poor condition of thefeeder road network lead to a marked reduction in the pyrethrin content ofdried flowers because of oxidation. Under the Project, therefore, selecteddistrict and feeder roads serving pyrethrum growing areas would be upgradedand maintained to all-weather standards to facilitate pyrethrum marketing(paras. 5.23-5.27).
1/ Mainly potatoes, but also millet, sorghum, beans, sunflower, groundnutsand vegetables.
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4.06 Responsibility for the maintenance of all roads in Mbeya and Iringaregions rests with the Works Division of the respective regional administra-tions. However, these are constrained by lack of finance, equipment, work-shops and workshop tools, trained staff and spare parts, and as a resultmaintenance is only sporadic, and often carried out only on an emergencybasis following damage caused by heavy rains and flooding. In both Mbeya andIringa regions efforts are underway, supported by external financing agen-cies (Norway in Mbeya and the EEC in Iringa), to strengthen the capabilitiesof the Works Divisions. While such efforts will need time to come to fruition(and for this reason the road improvement and maintenance component proposedunder the Project would be administered by MOW), it is anticipated that theregional road maintenance capacities would be sufficient, after the end of theProject's road component, to continue the maintenance of the roads which wouldhave been improved under the Project.
Socio-economic Conditions
4.07 Although Mbeya and Iringa regions are, overall, amongst the weal-thier regions of Tanzania (Mbeya ranking fifth and Iringa tenth of the twentyregions, on the basis of per-capita GDP), the pyrethrum-growing regionsare relatively poor, mainly because of their isolation. Little systematicdata exist on farm incomes in the Project area, but it is estimated, onthe basis of cropping patterns, yields and producer prices, that the averageannual per capita income (including subsistence) of pyrethrum growers isabout Tsh 650 (US$80), and that annual per capita cash income is Tsh 425(US$50), all figures in 1979 prices. The absolute rural poverty level inTanzania is about $105 in 1979 prices, so that the majority of pyrethrum-growing families (probably about 85%) live in absolute poverty.
V. THE PROJECT
A. General Description
5.01 The Project was originally prepared by GOT with assistance from theBank's Regional Mission in Eastern Africa (RMEA) as part of a larger project,the National Agricultural Development Program Phase I (NADP I). NADP I wasappraised by IDA in June 1977. However, it was not possible to completeappraisal of the pyrethrum component at that time because the roads programhad not been adequately prepared and there was insufficient data available onthe financial status of TPB and on the costs of pyrethrum marketing andprocessing. During 1978 and early 1979, consultants undertook detailedreviews of these aspects, and project preparation was completed in February1979 by GOT with further RMEA assistance.
5.02 The Project would, over a five year period, have the primary objec-tive of raising the cash incomes of smallholder pyrethrum growers in thehighlands of Mbeya and Iringa Regions by assisting these farmers to expand
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their output of dried pyrethrum flowers through the provision of plantingmaterial and improved research, extension, marketing and road transportservices. Specificaliy9, the Project would provide for:
(a) the expansion of smallholder production through: theproduction and distribution of improved planting mate.aland, on ar. interim basis, unimproved planting material;the improvement of pest control; the expansion of TPB'sfield staff; the improvement of flower drying techniques;the construction of additional TPB market centers/stores;and the expansion of TPB's transport fleet;
(b) the strengthening of the existing research program of theUyole Agricultural Center (UAC) through: the constructionand equipping of additional laboratory facilities; thefunding of additional research staff and staff training;the establishment of three new off-stations; and the financ-ing of research operations;
(c) the strengthening of TPBs operations through: theprovision of both long-term and short-term technicalassistance and stafL training; the construction of newoffice accommodation for TPB; and the provision ofvehicles for TPB headquarters staff;
(d) the improvement and maintenance of feeder roads through:the establishment of a fully staffed and equipped RoadImprovement and Maintenance Unit (RIMMU); and the financingof the costs of operations of the RIMU.
5.03 Responsibility for implementation of the smallholder productioncomponent would rest with TPB as strengthened under the Project. UAC wouldimplement the expanded research program, and the RIMU, administered by andreceiving technical support from MOW, would carry out the roads program.The location of proposed Project investments is shown on Map IBRD 14386.
B. Detailed Features
Smallholder Production Program
5.04 Improved Planting Material. Six existing bulking centers, (threein Mbeya and three in Iringa Regions) would be expanded and four new centersestablished in Iringa; suitable sites have been identified, and land isavailable. The centers would be used to multiply selected improved material,obtained from UAC or TPB's two large farms, for distribution to farmers. Thedistribution and size of the centers reflects the fact that two-thirds of theplanting material produced under the Project is expected to be distributed inIringa Regior. Within Iringa, it is estimated that 75% of the material wouldgo to Njombe and the recently created Makete Districts with the balance of 25%
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going to Iringa and Mufindi Districts. The planting material to be bulkedwould be a clone which, although selected twenty years ago, is superior toplanting material now in general use. By the end of the Project period, thebulking centers would have access to improved clonal material from UAC.
5.05 Planting material produced by bulking centers would be furthermultiplied in village nurseries before being distributed to farmers. InYear I of the Project (PYI), 45 ha of village nurseries would be established.In PY2, this would rise to 135 ha and in PY3 and succeeding years, to 200ha. These nurseries would be located close to villages where planting materialis required, in order to reduce transport costs and plant mortality. The sizeof each nursery would vary according to demand; the average size is expectedto be 2 ha. They would not be permanent, but would be relocated periodicallyin accordance with farmer demand. Each nursery would be managed by a headman,recruited locally on a temporary basis by TPB, and supervised by TPB fieldstaff. TPB has had experience with the operation of village nurseries since40 ha were established and operated, generally satisfactorily, during the1978/79 season. The Project would finance the costs of operations of thebulking centers and village nurseries, which comprise the costs of fertilizers,nematocides, pesticides, transport, tools and labor.
5.06 The output of village nurseries would be sufficient to plant 160 haof farmers' fields in PYI, 610 ha in PY2, 1,080 ha in PY3 and 1,650 ha insucceeding years. This planting material would be treated prior to dis-tribution to ensure that it would be nematode-free, and would be distributedto farmers free of charge, in accordance with TPB's current practice. Thereis no established credit system for pyrethrum farmers (para. 2.13) and giventhe low input requirements for pyrethrum production and the scattered andisolated locations of pyrethrum producing villages, it would be prohibitivelyexpensive to establish such a system. Without credit, however, many farmerswould not be able to afford the initial cost of establishing pyrethrum plotsif improved planting material were charged for, and would therefore continueto use their present inferior material. Production and distribution ofplanting material through bulking centers and village nurseries would be apermanent long-term program to continually upgrade planting material throughthe dissemination of improved material selected at UAC. Assurances wereobtained during negotiations that TPB would continue to provide this serviceto farmers after the completion of IDA disbursements. In effect, the costswould be met by a reduction in producer prices, since these are set taking inaccount TPB revenues and costs.
5.07 Unimproved Planting Material. Substantial quantities of improvedplanting material would become available only in PY3 and subsequent years,since little improved material is currently available to be bulked. To meetthe present demand for planting material in areas where even unimprovedmaterial is in short supply, the Project would fund, in PYI, PY2 and PY3 only,a program to produce and distribute unimproved planting material grown fromseed. This program would complement the similar EEC program in Iringa Region(para. 2.22).
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5.08 In PYI, 40 ha of seedling nurseries would be developed, using seedproduced at TPB's Ilinde and Mahenye farms in 1979/80. In PYI and PY2, theProject would finance the production of seed at these farms on 125 ha and100 ha respectively. The resultant seed would be sufficient to plant 50 haof seedling nursery in PY2 and 40 ha in PY3. These nurseries would be 1-2ha in size, an- would be located close to a source of water for irrigationand close to the point of demand. These nurseries would produce sufficientseedlings for 500 ha of farmers' fields in PYI, 600 ha in PY2 and 500 ha inPY3. Planting material would be made available to farmers free of charge.Project investments would cover the costs of fertilizer, nematocides, toolsand labor. As a result of this program, it is expected that the number ofpyrethrum growers would be increased by 4,000.
5.09 Pest Control. One hundred knapsack sprayers and a supply of in-secticide (probably Sumithion) would be provided to combat "thrips," an insectinfestation which occurs sporadically in lower, warmer areas. Only about 5%of farmers' fields are affected in any one year and for this reason, routinespraying is uneconomic. The problem can become serious, however, if outbreaksare not controlled. The sprayers would be held by TPB staff at bulkingcenters and at selected villages in vulnerable areas. They would be lentto farmers free of charge when needed; farmers would pay for the costs ofinsecticide.
5.10 Incremental TPB field staff. At present, only four of TPB'sAssistant Production Officers are fully trained to certificate level (para.2.11). To assist in supervision of planting material production and distri-bution, TPB would be allocated by the Ministry of Agriculture a further16 certificate holders and two diploma holders, to be employed by TPB asfield staff. Twelve of these certificate holders and the diplomates wouldbe available, having completed training, in July 1980, and the remaining fourcert:ificate-level staff in July 1981. This level of field staffing wouldbe sufficient for implementation of this Project, but would still be lessintensive than desirable. GOT has indicated its intention to strengthenregional extension services (para. 1.07), but no decision has yet been made onhow this would be done. Assurances were obtairled during negotiations thatKilimo, TPB and the Iringa and Nbeya regional aut_rities, riot later thanJune 30, 1982, would review and discuss with !iDA the adequacy of extensionservices for the Project area including the number of extension staff andarrangements for supervision of village level staff, and if necessary, pro-posals for the improvement of such services. Amongst possible ways to improveextension services would be the further expansion of TPB's field staff coupledwith the transfer of the costs of operation of these field staff to the Kilimobudget, as has been done recently for other parastatals (most notably, theTobacco Authority of Tanzania).
5.11 Flower-drying Techniques. Present techniques used for flower-dryingin the Project area are sun-drying, barn-drying and drying in small portabledriers (para. 2.09). A considerable proportion of pyrethrins is lost withall of these methods. Provision would therefore be made for TPB to obtainfrom a consulting firm the services of a team of three consultants (a drying
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specialist, an economist and a draughtsman) to review the needs of the variousparts of the Project area, which differ climatically, to assess the economicviability of alternative methods of drying given the limited availability offuels in the Project area, and to draw up detailed proposals for the imple-mentation of improved drying procedures where necessary. The coxisultai.zswould be employed for a total of about 10 manmonths. Agreement was reached atnegotiations that their recruitment would be in accordance with IDA guidelinesand that their terms of reference and conditions of service would be acceptableto IDA. The likely outcome of the consultants' studies would be recommendationsfor the establishment of pilot drying facilities, and a sum of Tsh. 2.0million (US$250,000) would be made available to implement such recommendations.During negotiations, it was agreed that these funds would be disbursed by IDAonly after agreement has been reached between IDA and TPB on the consultants'recommendations and their detailed implementation.
5.12 TPB Buying Centers/Stores. TPB's existing buying centers/storesare often in poor repair, leading to some deterioration and spoilage of driedflowers. The present number and capacity of these centers/stores is notsufficient for safe storage of dried flowers and various inputs during therains when truck collections can be delayed. Provision would therefore bemade for the construction of stores in 12 locations where existing facilitiesare 4udged inadequate and in two new locations. All the stores would be90 m wish a capacity of 25 tons of flowers except for Ndulamo which wouldbe 175 m with a capacity of 50 tons of flowers. The stores would be locatedin Uwemba and Ndulamo, in Njombe District; Ujuni, Matamba and Ipeleke inMakete District; Kilolo and Lupila in Iringa District; Kipanga in MufindiDistrict; and Santilya, Ilembo, Simanbwe, Ileje, Igoma and Lufilya in MbeyaDistrict (Map IBRD 14386). Construction of these stores would be phased overthe first three years of the Project. TPB would continue to operate the fourmain collecting stores it now operates in Mbeya, Chimala, Njombe and Iringa,whose capacities are adequate.
5.13 Transport. Twelve 7-ton trucks would be provided to TPB for trans-port of dried flowers from TPB's buying centers to its main stores. Thetrucks would have specially constructed high sides since pyrethrum flowersare bulky in relation to weight. Such trucks are too specialized to beattractive to either private truckers or to regional trucking companies.Five four-wheel drive station-wagons would also be provided to reach pyrethrumproducing villages inaccessible to trucks, and to transport buying clerksand other administrative officials. All these vehicles would also be usedfor input supply, in particular for supply of planting material from thebulking centers (para. 5.05). In addition, 22 motorcycles would be providedfor the use of existing and incremental TPB field staff. It was agreedduring negotiations that these motorcycles would be purchased by the fieldstaff using loans from TPB, and that TPB would pay these staff monthly operat-ing allowances.
Pyrethrum Research Program
5.14 The main focus of the present pyrethrum research program (para.2.10) is on the selection and clonal propagation of improved planting mate-rial. Promising plants from farmers' fields are collected and put through
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a seven-year, four-stage process of single-plant observations, line obser-vations, initial yield trials and adaptability trials. The first two stagesare conducted at Uyole, W4ith the thi-d and fourth stages also involving threeoffstations, at Igoma in Mbeya Region and at Kinyika and Igeri in IringaRegion. The first recomviendations of improved selections are rLU expecteduntil 1982, reflecting the fact that research of this nature did not beginuntil 1974.
5.15 The present research program is understaffed (only one part-timeresearcher is currently assigned to it). The period between initial collectionof planting material and recommendations of improved material is relativelylong (seven years); the present number of offstations does not adequatelyreflect the ecological range of pyrethrum-growing areas, and the programis short of equipment and operating funds.
5.16 The Project would fund the employment of an internationally-recruited Research Officer, who would be stationed at Uyole and who would workfull-time on pyrethrum research. A tissue-culture unit (which would includean operations room, a laboratory, an evaluation room and greenhouse) would beconstructed at Uyole, and would be staffed by two laboratory techniciansfinanced under the Project. To assist UAC in the introduction of tissue-culture techniques (which would be new to Tanzania) funding would be providedunder the Project for UAC to obtain, on a contract basis, long term researchsupport from an institution (probably a university) with expertise in the useof tlhis technique, and to employ, for about four man-months, a specialist todesign suitable facilities and draw up a list of equipment required. Theintroduction of tissue culture techniques would, by facilitating the rapidmultiplication of clonal material, shorten by at least two years the timetaken to produce research recommendations. A further three offstations wouldbe established (at Santilya in Mbeya, Kitowa in Iringa and at one otherlocation to be determined); these, plus the existing offstations, would begiveni an adequate range of growing conditions. A special unit (staffed by twolaboratory technicians) for the speedy analysis of flower samples would beestablished in the laboratory of the Mafinga extract plant, to provide rapidand accurate feedback to research staff on pyrethrin content of researchmaterial. The Project would provide funds for the interchange of plantmaterial with other pyrethrum-producing countries, for visits to otherpyrethrum producers by research staff and for training of Tanzanian researchstaff. Six houses, a four-wheel drive vehicle and six motor-cycles would beprovided for incremental staff, and during the Project period, the operatingcosts of the expanded research program would be met under the Project.Assurances were obtained at negotiations that the research support serviceswould be obtained under terms of reference and conditions of contract satis-factory to IDA, and that GOT would provide, after the period of IDA disburse-ments, sufficient funds for the continued operation of the expanded researchprogram. It was also agreed during negotiations that GOT would give UACassistance as necessary to acquire sites for the construction of housing andfacilities.
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Strengthening of TPB
5.17 TPB's responsibilities have grown over the past few years and wouldbe further expanded under the Project. To assist TPB to manage these respon-sibilities, a series cf institution building measures would be financed underthe Project.
5.18 Incremental TPB Staff. A Financial Controller would be recruitedinternationally, who would have overall responsibility within TPB for account-ing and financial administration. The present Chief Accountant would serve asthe Financial Controller's deputy, would receive training under the Project(para. 5.20) and would be expected to become Financial Controller after aminimum period of five years. Two agronomists would be recruited inter-nationally. A Planning and Production Agronomist would work at TPB HQunder the Production and Planning Manager, with overall responsibility forthe planning and management of the Project's smallholder production component,and a Field Agronomist would work in close collaboration with the Iringaand Hlbeya Regional Production Managers, and would assist them in the day-to-day implementation of the smallholder production component, in particularthe planting material programs. The costs of employment of these inter-nationally-recruited staff are estimated at US$70,000 per annum, includingsalary, international travel and benefits. A Transport Officer, a CostAccountant, an Internal Auditor, a Planning Officer, a Statistician/EvaluationOfficer and a Procurement Officer would be locally recruited and financedunder the Project.
5.19 Short-term technical assistance. Six man-months of short-termconsultancy would be financed under the Project at an estimated cost perman-month (including salaries, overhead costs, fees, international travel andsubsistence) of Tsh 75,000 (US$9,000), for a study of TPB's transport managementsystems and the formulation of improvements. This study would be carried outby staff of the National Institute of Productivity in Dar-es-Salaam, which hasexpertise in this area. Completion of this latter study and agreement betweenTPB and IDA on implementation of its recommendations would be a condition ofdisbursement for trucks, four-wheel-drive vehicles and motorcycles purchasedby TPB. It was agreed at negotiations that these consultants would beemployed under terms of reference and conditions of employment satisfactoryto IDA.
5.20 Staff training. Funds would be provided under the Project forthe training of Tanzanian TPB staff. In PY1, all TPB field staff wouldreceive a two-week training course at Uyole. In each succeeding year,refresher courses would be given to half of TPB's field staff. UAC issatisfactorily staffed and equipped to provide such training. Funds are alsoprovided under the Project for TPB staff to participate in both overseas andlocal training courses and seminars, covering subjects such as administration,finance, marketing, factory management and personnel management. In addition,the internationally-recruited staff (particularly the Financial Controller)
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wou:Ld carry out on-the-job training of Tanzanian counterpart and subordinatestaff. It was agreed at negotiations that, no later than December 31., 1980,TPB would draw up, for discussion with IDA, a detailed training programto utilize the funds provided under the Project.
5.21 Offices and Houses. Under the Project, TPB's head office would berelocated to Iringa (closer to TPB's field operations). TPB's IringaRegional Office would then move to a new office in Njombe. The Project wouldalso finance the construction of a new district office in Makete, and a newRegional Office block in Mbeya, where existing accommodation is totally in-adequate. In view of the chronic shortage of staff housing in these locations,housing would be constructed and furnished for TPB stafS in Iringa, Njombe,Makete and Iringa. The new Head Office would ue 1150 m in size, the Iringaand Mbeya ReFional Offices would each be 190 m , and the Makete dkstrictoffice 100 m . A total of ten senior sWaff houses (each of 108 m ), fourteeemiddle level staff houses (each of 82 m ) and one junior staff house of 60 mwould be constructed. It was agreed during negotiations that GOT wouldassist TPB as necessary to acquire the sites for these houses and offices.
5.22 Vehicles. The purchase of five four-wheel drive vehicles would befinanced under the Project, for the use of TPB's Executive Officer, Planningand Production Manager, two Agronomists and Financial Controller, and asnecessary by other TPB staff involved in Project implementation.
Road Improvement and Maintenance
5.23 The Project would finance the improvement and maintenance of about200 km of selected feeder roads in the Project area. The roads to be improved(listed in Annex 1 Table T-9 and shown in Map IBRD-14386) were selected byGOT following a survey of over 400 kms of road in the Project area by consul-tants in 1978. Criteria for inclusion in the program included the presentroad condition, the volume of pyrethrum traffic carried and the economic rateof return on each road. The roads included are roughly equally dividedbetween Iringa and Mbeya Regions.
5.24 The roads would be improved so as to allow 7-ton truck traffic topass in all weathers. The roads would have a 5.5 m maximum formation width.As far as possible, gradients would be limited to 14% with no restriction ontheir length; the radii of horizontal curves in mountainous areas are expectedto be at least 30 m. Existing bridges would be repaired and new bridges wouldconsist of simple masonry or gabion abutments with sawn and treated timberdecks. Drainage would be improved with adequate masonry or cement concreteculverts and side ditches with lead-offs. Generally, roads would have aneartlh surface except in water-logged areas and along sections with excessivegradients where they would be gravelled. Roads completed under the Projectwould be maintained as part of Project activities until the improvementprogram was finished. The minimum acceptable maintenance standards would beset to insure that the roads are passable in all weather. This would entailregular repairs to avoid large pot holing and corrugations, grading to retaincambers and shape across road width, keeping side ditches, culverts andlead--offs clear, repair of culverts and bridges and protection of slopes.
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5.25 The road improvement program would be carried out, over a three-year period, by force account by a Road Improvement and Maintenance Unit(RIMU). It was agreed during negotiations that the RIMU would be estab-lished not later than March 31st, 1981 under the control of the Director ofRoads and Aerodromes in MOW. Machinery-intensive techniques would be used.Labor intensive methods would not be suitable in this case because of theshortage of labor in the mountain areas where roads would be constructed andthe high cost of importing labor. The relatively high wages for unskilledlabor (US$2 per day) and the dearth of managerial skills would also make theuse of labor intensive methods uneconomical in this case. Until the establish-ment of the RIMU, MOW would be responsible for procurement and staff recruit-ment. To allow adequate time for procurement of equipment and for constructionof housing, office and workshop accommodation, (which would be handled by MOW,which has adequate expertise in these respects), RIMU management staff wouldnot be recruited until the third quarter of PY1, and road improvement wouldnot start until PY2. The Project would finance the procurement of equipmentand spare parts for the RDMU (a full list of equipment is given in Table T-10of Annex 1). A Roads Engineer, a Construction Supervisor and a MechanicalSupervisor, would be internationally-recruited to manage the operations ofthe RIMU. The costs of employing these internationally-recruited staff areestimated at US$70,000 per annum, including salary, international travel andbenefits. About 135 local staff and labor (a list is at Table T-11 of Annex1), would also be employed by RIMU.
5.26 The RIMU would be based in Mbeya, which is the major town mostconvenient to its operations. The Project would finance the constructionof three houses for senior RIMU personnel, and a small office and workshopin Mbeya. It was agreed at negotiations that GOT would give MOW assistance asnecessary to acquire sites for these facilities. The Project would financethe costs of operation of the RIMU, including the costs of salaries, wages andmaterials such as cement, steel, lumber, tires, fuel, oil and lubricants.
5.27 Several alternative means of carrying out the proposed road improve-ment and maintenance component were explored during Project preparation andappraisal. There are few private road contractors in Tanzania; they arebased in Dar-es-Salaam and do not have the capacity to extend their operationsto carry out the proposed program. Because of the scattered character of theroad works proposed, and their location in mountainous areas of difficultaccess, international contractors are unlikely to be interested. Neither TPBnor Kilimo has the management capacity or expertise to be able to carry outthe program. The regional works divisions in Mbeya and Iringa, althoughreceiving support from external agencies (para. 4.06) are likely during thenext few years to remain unable to carry out such a program in addition totheir broader regional responsibilities. However, by the end of PY4, whenthe road improvement program would be completed, it is anticipated that theRegional roads divisions would, as a result of the external assistance theyhad received, be in a position to continue routine maintenance of the roadsimproved under the Project. During negotiations, agreement was reachedthat, not later than March 31, 1984, GOT would review the capacity of theRegional works divisions in Mbeya and Iringa to take over from RDMU main-tenance of the roads improved under the Project, and would furnish to IDA
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proposals regarding the responsibility for continued maintenance of theroads improved under the Project, and that RDMU equipment would, aftercompletion of the Project's road component, be used for the maintenance ofroads improved under the Project or for the development and maintenance ofother feeder roads in Mbeya and Iringa Regions. Agreement was also reachedduring negotiations that, throughout the Project period, adequate funds wouldbe budgeted by GOT for the maintenance of all main and local main roads usedfor the transportation of pyrethrum in the Project area, and that adequatefunds would be budgeted for the maintenance after the construction period ofroacts improved under the Project.
Implementation Schedule
5.28 A Chart showing the anticipated rates of implementation of thevarious Project components is at Chart C-2, Annex 1.
C. Project Costs
5.29 The total costs of the Project would be Tsh 109.4 million (US$13.2million), of which US$7.8 million (60 percent) represents the foreign exchangecosts. These total costs include about Tsh 4.0 million (US$0.5 million) oftaxes and duties, comprised mainly of import duties on trucks and motorcyclespurchased by TPB. The phasing of Project costs is summarized in Annex 1,Table T-12, and costs for each of the components are given in more detail inAnnex 1, Table T-13 through T-16. Project costs are summarized below:
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Local Foreign Total Local Foreign Total Exch % Cost %------ Tsh '000 ------- ------ US$ '000 -------
Smailholder ProductionImproved Planting
Material 3,435 2,285 5,720 414 275 689 40 7Unimproved Planting
Material 2,466 340 2,806 297 41 338 12 4Pest Control 113 337 450 14 41 55 75 1Incremental TPB Field
Staff 1,108 --- 1,108 133 --- 133 --- 1Drying Study and
Project costs have been estimated on the basis of prices prevailing in January1980. Physical contingencies have been included at a rate of 20 percent onthe costs of civil works and equipment for the research component and at arate of 10 percent on all other costs except the lump sum for improveddryers. Price contingencies on imported vehicles and equipment and on inter-nationally-recruited staff and consultants have been included at annual ratesof 10.5% in 1980, 9% in 1981, 8% in 1982 and 7% thereafter. For local equipmentand staff costs, price contingencies have been included at annual ratesof 11% in 1980, 10% in 1981 and 9% thereafter. For civil works, higherprice contingencies have been included at annual rates of 12% in 1980, 11% in1981 and 1982 and 10% thereafter, reflecting the pressure on constructionindustry capacity. Price contingencies total 26% of Project base line costs.
D. Financing
5.30 The financing of Project costs, net of taxes and duties, would beas follows:
US$ Million %
IDA 10.0 79Government of Tanzania 2.7 21
12.7 100
The proposed IDA credit of US$10.0 million would be on standard terms to theGovernment of Tanzania and would cover all the foreign exchange costs of theProject (US$7.8 million) and 44 percent of local costs, or about 79 percentof total Project costs. GOT would finance the remaining US$2.7 million,.netof taxes and duties.
5.31 Credit funds and GOT contributions for the smallholder productionprogram (Tsh 27.2 million, including contingencies) would be channelledby GOT to TPB in the form of equity. Credit funds and GOT contributions forthe pyrethrum research program (Tsh 18.4 million, including contingencies)would be channelled to UAC on a grant basis, through the Kilimo developmentbudget. Credit funds and GOT contributions for the road component (Tsh 27.8million, including contingencies) would be channelled to the RIMU on a grantbasis through the development budget of the MOW. The remainder of creditfunds and GOT contributions for the strengthening of TPB's operational capa-city (Tsh 36.0 million including contingencies) would be on-lent by GOT to TPBfor a period of 10 years, including 5 years of grace, at an annual interestrate of 10%, which is currently the interest rate charged by GOT to parastatalborrowers. In the case of TPB, the division of funds between equity and loanis in accordance with GOT's policy that 'non-commercial' parastatal invest-ments be financed by grants or equity, while 'commercial' investments (which
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are expected to generate a financial return to the parastatal), should befinanced by loans. The terms and conditions of this financing plan wereagreed at negotiations. Completion, in a form satisfactory to IDA, of anon-lending agreement between GOT and TPB would be a coaditioni of crediteffectiveness.
5.32 To ensure that the housing and offices for TPB (which are requiredfor effective Project implementation) and the study of TPB's transport systems(completion of which is a condition of disbursement of funds for vehicle pur-chase) are completed as expeditiously as possible, IDA has urged TPB to enterinto contracts, prior to Board Presentation, for the design of the houses andoffices and the preparation of tender documents, and for the conduct by con-sultants of the study. It is recommended that part of the costs of thesecontracts incurred after February 15, 1980, be financed retro-actively out ofthe proposed credit. The maximum sums likely to be involved would be:
Total Retro-activeContracts Financing…----------- us$- …
(a) Design of civil works,preparation of documents 115,000 97,500
(b) Transport management study 50,000 42,500165,000 140,000
VI. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
A. Management
6.01 The Tanganyika Pyrethrum Board (TPB) would have responsibilityfor implementation of the smallholder production component of the Project.The capacity of TPB to carry out this responsibility would be augmented by theinstitution-building component of the Project. Overall day-to-day responsi-bility for planning and management of the smallholder component would restwith the Planning and Production Manager of TPB, who reports directly to theExecutive Officer of TPB. He would be assisted in the detailed planning ofproduction activities by the internationally-recruited Planning and ProductionAgronomist who would be financed under the Project (para. 5.18). The Planningand Production Manager would also be assisted during Project implementationby a Planning Officer and a Statistician/Evaluation Officer (both locally-recruited graduates) financed under the Project (para. 5.18). Responsibilityfor field implementation of production activities would rest with TPB'sRegional Managers in Iringa and Mbeya Regions, who would be assisted incarrying out their responsibilities by the internationally-recruited FieldAgronomist who would be financed under the Project (para. 5.18). The FinanceDepartment, which would have responsibility for the maintenance of Project-related TPB accounts (para. 6.08) in addition to its normal accounting func-tions, would be strengthened under the Project by the provision of an inter-nationally-recruited Financial Controller and of a Cost Accountant and an
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Internal Auditor, both of whom would be locally-recruited (para. 5.18). TPB's
Administration Department, which would be responsible for procurement, for theorganization of staff training and for the management of the transport fleetfinanced under the Project, would be strengthened by the provision under theProject of a Procurement Officer and of a Transport Officer (pa-a. 5.18) whowould be based at the Mafinga factory, where there are workshop facilities.The mnarketing of the incremental pyrethrum products produced as a result ofthe Project would be handled by the Marketing Department, which is adequatelystaffed to handle its responsibilities. Assurances were obtained at negotia-tions that TPB would carry out the Project according to detailed annualwork programs,which would be sent to IDA for review. The first such program,that relating to FY81, would be sent for IDA review not later than May 31st1980. Thereafter, work programs would be sent for IDA review not later thanMarch 31st preceding the GOT fiscal year to which they apply.
6.02 The pyrethrum research component would be implemented by the Uyole
Agricultural Center (UAC). Overall responsibility would rest with UAC'sChief Scientific Officer, but day-to-day responsibility for component imple-mentation would rest with the internationally-recruited Research Officerfinanaced under the Project, who would be a staff member of the Department ofPlant Breeding. UAC would liaise closely with TPB's agronomists in carryingout ihe research program, and TPB staff would assist UAC staff in the selec-tion of promising plant material as required from farmers' fields. Assuranceswere obtained during negotiations that the research component would be carriedout in accordance with detailed annual work programs. The first of these pro-grams, that relating to FY81, would be sent to IDA for review not later thanMay 31, 1980. Thereafter, these work programs would be sent for IDA reviewnot later than March 31st preceding the GOT fiscal year to which they apply.
6.03 In view of the lack of a viable alternative method (para 5.27), theroads component of the Project would be undertaken by the Roads Improvementand Maintenance Unit (RIMU) which would be established under the Project andwhich would work under the administrative and technical supervision of theDirec:tor of Roads and Aerodromes of MOW. The MOW would be responsible forprocurement of the equipment required for the RI4U, for the selection andsupervision of contractors for the construction of the houses, office andworkshop required for RIMU and for the recruitment of the three internationally-recruited RIMU senior staff (Roads Engineer, Construction Supervision andMechEnical Supervisor). MOW would also assist the RIMU in recruitment of thelocal staff required for its operations. The RIMU would operate according toannual work programs which would be drawn up by the Roads Engineer of RDIUafter consultation with the Regional Development Directors of Mbeya and IringaRegions. Assurances were obtained at negotiations that the first such workprogram (that relating to FY82) would be sent to IDA for review not later thanMay 31, 1981. Therafter, such work programs would be sent for IDA review notlater than March 31st preceding the GOT fiscal year to which they apply.
B. Staffing
6.04 Assurances were obtained during negotiations that IDA would be con-sulted, prior to appointment, on the suitability, in terms of qualifications
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and experience, of candidates for the posts of Financial Controller, Planningand Production Agronomist, Field Agronomist, Research Officer, Roads Engineer,Construction Supervisor and Mechanical Supervisor, and that IDA would beconsulted prior to the appointment of successor staff to these positions. Itwas agreed at negotiations that internationally-recruited staff financedunder the Project would be employed under terms and conditions satisfactoryto IDA. It was further agreed during negotiations that appointment of aFinancial Controller after consultation with IDA on qualifications andexperience, would be a condition of credit effectiveness; that the ResearchOfficer, Field Agronomist and Planning and Production Agronomist would beappointed no later than September 30, 1980; and that the Road Engineer, theMechanical Superintendent and the Construction Supervisor would be appointedno later than March 31, 1981. Assurances were obtained that the TPB posts ofPlanning and Production Manager, Iringa Regional Manager and Mbeya RegionalManager would continue, throughout the Project period, to be filled by suit-ably qualified staff. A total of 30 man years of internationally recruitedlong-term technical assistance, and 20 man-months of short-term consultancyservices, would be financed under the Project.
C. Procurement
6.05 Procurement under the Project would be in accordance with BANK/IDAguidelines. Specifically:
(a) orders for new vehicles and spare parts (US$0.9 million) 1/ androad equipment and spare parts (US$0.5 million) would be bulkedas far as practicable, and orders of US$100,000 and above wouldbe procured through international competitive bidding (ICB) fromsuppliers who maintain (or agree to maintain) in Tanzania anadequate after-sales service and inventory of spare parts;
(b) orders for vehicles and roads equipment below US$100,000 wouldbe procured in accordance with existing local procedures whichare satisfactory; however, these orders would not exceedUS$300,000 in aggregate;
(c) orders for tools (USO.1 million), sprayers (US$0.1 million),insecticides, fertilizers and nematocides (US$0.3 million)and tires, fuel, oils and materials and supplies for roadconstruction (US$0.6 million) would be bulked to the maximumextent possible, and would.be procured on the basis of localcompetitive bidding in accordance with existing proceduresthat are satisfactory. ICB would not be appropriate in view ofthe variety of items involved, and small size and frequencyof order necessary;
(d) contracts for the construction of buying centers/stores(US$0.4 million), offices and workshops (US$0.6 million),
1/ All figures quoted in this paragraph exclude contingencies.
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laboratory facilities (US$0.1 million) and staff housing(US$1.1 million) would be too small and scattered to attractinternational interest. Procurement would therefore be bycontracts awarded following locally-advertised bidding,altki)ugh foreign firms would be entitled to compete;
(e) the selection and employment of consultants to provideshort-term technical assistance to TPB (US$0.1 million)and UAC (US$0.1 million) would be in accordance withBank/IDA guidelines.
Draf-t tender documents for all contracts expected to cost in excess ofUS$]L00,000 would be submitted to IDA for approval before bid invitations areissued, and bid analysis and recommendations for award would be submitted toIDA for comment before contracts would be awarded. In the evaluation of bidsfor (a) above, bonafide domestic manufacturers would be accorded a preferenceof 15 percent or the existing rate of duty, whichever is lower. Assuranceswere obtained during negotiations that the procurement procedures outlinedabove would be followed.
D. Disbursement
6.06 Disbursement of funds from the Credit would be on the followingbasis:
(a) 95% of the costs of construction of offices, houses, laboratoryfacilities, buying centers/stores and workshop (US$2.1million) and 100% of the cost of driers (US$0.25 million);
(b) 100% of the foreign exchange costs of vehicles, equip-ment and spare parts, and 85% of local costs when these arepurchased locally for TPB (US$0.55 million) and for UAC andRIMU (US$0.95 million);
(c) 100% of the foreign exchange costs and 85% of the local costof internationally-recruited personnel, consultants andtraining costs (US$3.0 million);
(d) 85% of the salaries of incremental local staff employedby TPB and UAC (US$0.2 million);
(e) 85% of the local costs of operation (other than internationally-recruited staff costs) of the RIMU (US$0.7 million);
(f) an unallocated amount of US$2.25 million, representing contin-gincies on the above categories, and transferable to them asrequired.
6.07 All disbursements under (a), (b) and (c) would be against contracts,and hence fully documented. Disbursements against (d) would be on the basis
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of certificates of expenditure signed by the Executive Officer of TPB or theChief Scientific Officer of UAC, as appropriate. Disbursements against (e)would be on the basis of certificates of expenditure signed by the RoadsEngineer and the Director of Roads and Aerodromes in the MOW. For disburse-ments under both (d) and (e), supporting documents would be retained torinspection by supervision missions. Funds remaining in the Credit at Projectcompletion would be cancelled, unless otherwise agreed by IDA. A scheduleshowing the estimated pattern of disbursements under the Project is atAnnex 1, Table T-17.
E. Accounts and Audit
6.08 Separate accounts relating to expenditures under the Project wouldbe kept by TPB, UAC and the RIMU. Assurances were obtained during negotia-tions that these accounts would be audited by independent auditors acceptableto IDA, and that such audited accounts would be submitted to IDA within sixmonths of the end of each financial year. The auditors would specificallyreview and comment on the procedures used for control of disbursement againststatements of expenditure. TPB's accounts are currently in arrears (para.3.06), but would be expected to be brought up to date and kept up-to-date as aresult of the employment under the Project of incremental financial staff forTPB (para. 5.18). It was agreed during negotiations that, by August 31, 1981,TPB would have updated its accounts and designed and begun the implementationof improved financial systems. The accounts of the UAC are currently up-to-date.
F. Monitoring and Reporting
6.09 The progress of Project implementation would be monitored closelyby the Planning and Production Agronomist in TPB, who would submit detailedquarterly reports of physical implementation and the use of funds to thePlanning and Production Manager and the Executive Officer of TPB, the Directorof Roads and Aerodromes (MOW), the Managing Director of UAC and the PrincipalSecretary of Kilimo, and to IDA. Input on the progress of the research androads components would be made available to TPB by the Research Officer andthe Roads Engineer, respectively. Particular attention would be paid in thesereports to:
(a) the progress of the smallholder production component, in termsof bulking centers and nurseries established, planting materialdistributed, utilization of knapsack sprayers, field servicestaffing, construction of buying centers/stores, dryingimprovements and procurement of vehicles;
(b) the progress of the research component, in terms of constructionof facilities, procurement of equipment, staffing, training andthe outcome of research operations;
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(c) the progress in recruiting incremental TPB staff, in training,in construction of housing and offices and in carrying outconsultant studies;
(d) progress in the procurement and delivery of roads equipment,the construction of RIMU housing, office and workshop, thestaffing of RIMU, and RIMU progress in road improvement andmaintenance;
(e) to put the above into context, data on dried flower production,estimated yields, pyrethrin content and sales of extract andmarc.
Assurances were obtained during negotiations that these reporting procedureswould be followed.
G. Evaluation
6.10 During the course of Project implementation, the Statistician/Evaluation Officer financed under the Project would, with the cooperation ofTPB field staff, carry out field studies and data analyses to evaluate theeffects of Project investments. He would carry out baseline and ad hocsurveys in areas in which improved planting material had been distributed, todetermine the effects of this on flower yields. He would, by analysis of thedata TPB collects on pyrethrin content of flowers marketed by each licencee,assess the effect of Project investments in raising pyrethrin content. Hewould carry out sample field surveys to estimate the area under pyrethrumcultivation, and to monitor changing cropping patterns in the various zones.TPB would be able to obtain technical assistance in the design of the studiesand analyses from the recently established Project Preparation and MonitoringBureau in Kilimo. The findings of these studies and analyses would be incor-porated into the quarterly progress reports.
6.11 Within six months of the completion of disbursements, TPB wouldprepare and submit to IDA a Project Completion Report, analyzing the imple-mentation of the Project and its impact in relation to its objectives.During negotiations, assurances were obtained to this effect.
VII. PYRETHRUM MARKETS AND PRICE PROSPECTS
A. Uses of Pyrethrum
7.01 The specific insecticidal properties of pyrethrum (para. 2.04),dictate its end-uses. Its sensitivity to sunlight, for example, makespyrethrum unsuitable for agricultural field use, except where the periodbefore harvest is short (one day or less) or for post-harvest applicationduring transportation and storage. Because of its low mammalian toxicity,
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pyrethrum is used chiefly in food-related industries, homes, animal sheltersand public buildings, usually as a liquid spray or in oil- or water-basedaerosols. It is also used in the form of creams and ointments, mosquitocoils and sticks, and powders and dusts (both dry and wettable). In manyof these formulations (particularly aerosols), pyrethrum is used with propel-lants, perfumes, etc, so that the value of pyrethrum used in the finishedproduct may be as little as 10%. Pyrethrum is almost always used, for reasonsof economy, in conjunction with a 'synergist,' 1/ usually piperonyl butoxide.
7.02 The safety and efficiency of natural pyrethrins has led to thedevelopment of synthetic chemical compounds (pyrethroids) with similarstructures and properties. The first pyrethroid, "allethrin," was developedin the USA in 1949, and several hundred other pyrethroids were formulated inthe 1950's and 1960's. These pyrethroids, which are now termed 'first-generation pyrethroids,' share with pyrethrins the property of being unstableto light. Only half-a-dozen are of commercial importance. Since 1970, asecond generation of pyrethroids has been developed. These are stable tolight, and so have greater agricultural potential than pyrethrins. However,these compounds may yield stable breakdown products, and thus have not beencertified for wide use in households or food-processing facilities.
7.03 Although pyrethroids (particularly first-generation) closelyresemble pyrethrins in chemical structure, no single pyrethroid can matchnatural pyrethrins in terms of knock-down, kill, flushing-out effect or broadactivity spectrum. The commercially-available pyrethroids are manufacturedby five companies: two in the USA and one each in Japan, the U.K. and France.The degree of substitution of pyrethroids for pyrethrins varies betweenend-uses and between countries. Their substitution for pyrethrins is mostmarked in the manufacture of mosquito coils, which are used extensively inJapan and developing countries, where allethrin is mainly used, since it ischeaper than pyrethrins (though also less effective).
B. World Production and Consumption
Production
7.04 The world's five leading pyrethrum producers (Kenya, Tanzania,Ecuador, Rwanda and Japan) account for about 97% of total world production,of which Kenya and Tanzania together contribute about 90%. Over the period1955/56 - 1976/77, world production increased at a rate of 4.7% per annum.This growth, however, was marked by wide cyclical variations. Details ofworld production of dried pyrethrum flowers in recent years are tabulatedbelow:
1/ An insecticidal synergist is a compound which while having little or noinsecticidal properties of its own, when combined with an insecticidesignificantly increase the toxicity of that insecticide, and may alsoincrease the speed of actioni.
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World Dried Flower Production
Year World Production of which: Kenya Tanzania…-- - - - - -- - - - - - tons…-- - - - - - - - - - - - -
7.05 Production in 1974/75 was at an all time high. Since then, produc-tion has declined markedly, both as a result of adverse climatic conditionsand, more importantly, as a result of increased competition for land andlabor from food crops, whose prices in Kenya and Tanzania over the relevantperiod have been high. In recent months, both Kenya and Tanzania have raisedthe producer prices to pyrethrum growers, which is expected to lead to in-creased production.
Consumption
7.06 Virtually all of the output of pyrethrum is exported from, andconisumed outside of, the producing countries. Since pyrethrum cannot bestored for long without deterioration, no stocks are held by either producersor manufacturers, and consumption in any year is thus determined by productionin the previous year. Thus, the strong fluctuations in supply which haveoccurred in the past have led to corresponding fluctuations in world trade andin consumption. Although a large number of countries import pyrethrumproducts, the main users are the USA (about 40%), the UK (about 20%) and otherWestern European countries (20%). Demand appears to be growing fastest inJapan, Brazil, Mexico, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands andFinland.
7.07 Total world production and use of pyrethroids is not known withcertainty, but was estimated at 350-400 tons in 1975, when the production andconsumption of pyrethrins was 300 tons (both figures on a 100% activeingredient basis for comparability). More recent data is not available, butagricultural use of second-generation pyrethroids has expanded greatly since19-75.
C. Recent Price Trends
7.08 Below are tabulated, for the years 1962-1979, the export pricesof 25% crude extract from Tanzania, in both current dollars and constant1978 dollars. Also given are price indices (1978=100) for both currentand constant prices:
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Tanzania Export Unit ValueCurrent Prices Constant Prices 1/US$ Index US$ Index
II 37.2 112.9 36.4 110.41978 Av. 32.9 100.0 33.0 1001979 I 37.2 112.9 34.9 105.9
II 46.1 140.0 41.9 126.91979 Av. 41.6 126.5 38.4 116.3
1/ Deflated by the Bank's Index of International Inflation (1978=100), EPDIT,February 1979.
7.09 These data clearly indicate that the period 1962-1979 falls into twodistinct sub-periods. From 1962-1975, nominal prices for pyrethrum declinedand when prices are adjusted to allow for inflation, this trend is greatlyaccentuated. Thus the price of pyrethrum extract declined in real terms by60% over this period. This steady decline reflects the cautious pricingpolicy adopted by Kenya (which, as the dominant producer, is the price leader)in the face of intensifying competition from pyrethroids and a slight excessof production over demand that emerged around 1967/68.
7.10 From 1975 onwards, however, the real price of pyrethrum extracthas risen by over 50%, at an average annual rate of about 11%. This turn-around in prices is attributable to three main causes. Firstly, there hasbeen increasing concern over the adverse environmental effects of otherinsecticides, particularly in the USA, where it is now mandatory for allpesticides to undergo a stringent series of tests at the manufacturers'expense. Secondly, there has been a sharp rise in the costs of productionof pyrethroids, which are petro-chemical based compounds; raw materialsaccount for 80% of production costs. Thirdly, the decline in world productionhas resulted in supply shortages and has thus exerted upward pressure onprices.
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D. Market Outlook and Price Prospects
Factors Affecting Demand
7.11 Availability. Supplies of pyrethrum are subject to climatic factorsand to changes in crop pricing policy in producing countries. Pyrethroids,on the other hand, are in stable supply. The instability of pyrethrum sup-
plies force insecticide manufacturers to substitute pyrethroids in periods ofshort pyrethrin supply; these substitutions are not always reversed whenpyrethrum supplies increase.
7.12 Cost effectiveness. A systematic comparison of the relative pricesof pyrethrin and pyrethroids is not possible, since prices of the pyrethroids
are not published and vary markedly from country to country as a result ofcomplex licensing and patenting practices. Furthermore, the only economicallyvalid way of comparing different insecticides is by comparing cost-effective-ness in the same end use, and even this is complicated by the fact that thereare several criteria (knock-down, kill, repellency, etc) against which effi-ciency can be measured. The general consensus from industry sources is that,despite the marked increase in pyrethrum extract prices over the past fewyears, pyrethrum remains competitive with pyrethroids. However, it is felt
that pyrethrum extract prices cannot, in real terms, rise much above currentlevels, and certainly cannot approach the levels of the early 1960's. Indeed,to the extent to which present prices reflect a 'scarcity premium,' realprices might decline somewhat once pyrethrum supplies improve.
7.13 Population and Income Growth. The demand for non-agriculturalinsecticides is dependent on the number of potential users and their levelsof income and standard of living. In developed countries, the rate ofpopulation growth is low, and high standards of sanitary and housing condi-tions reduce the need for insecticides. However, high and rising disposablepersonal incomes have resulted in a rise in the demand for convenienceproducts such as aerosols. In developing countries, on the other hand,consumption of insecticides has remained at a relatively low level becauseof low disposable incomes. However, in the high-income developing countrymarkets (such as Brazil and Argentina), consumption of aerosols is growingrapidly.
7.14 Public Control of Insecticide Usage. As a result of environmentalconcerns, many governments now exercise strict regulatory powers over the useof insecticides, and this has led to greater demand for pyrethrum, with itslong record of safe use. For a time, the most widely used synergist, piper-onyl butoxide (para. 7.01), was suspected of being a carcinogen, but latestinformation is that these fears have been dispelled. Pyrethrum has benefittedfrom tight regulation of insecticide use and will continue to do so.Registration of a new insecticide in the U.S. can take up to ten years andcost US$15 million, which makes it unlikely that any new insecticides will bedeveloped purely for the non-agricultural market. It is possible that someinsecticides designed primarily for agricultural use (e.g. permethrin) willalso be registered for non-agricultural use, although even in these cases,
registration will take two to four years and cost up to US$4.0 million.
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7.15 Industry sources differ in their assessment of overall world futuredemand for pyrethrum, which was estimated at about 22,000 tons of driedflowers in 1975/76. One large US formulator estimates, on the basis of asurvey of major users, that US demand will grow by 8% per annum in the periodup to 1982. Other industry sources are less optimistic than this, but themajority view is that, even on conservative assumptions, world demand shouldremain at least at its 1976 level of 22,000 tons of flowers. It appearsunlikely that world production will approach this level for at least fiveyears. Kenya has recently begun a major effort to raise production, but itappears unlikely that production in that country will exceed 14,000 or 15,000tons even in five years time. The long-term production projections forTanzania in the 'with-Project situation' (Table T-21) thus are consistent withTanzania's retaining its historic share (20-25%) of a world market stabilizedat around the 20,000-22,000 ton per annum level.
Projected Prices
7.16 The export price projections tabulated below and used in the analy-sis of this Project are based on the above considerations. The extractprices refer to 25% crude extract, f.o.b. Dar-es-Salaam or Tanga. The marcprices are for coarse marc f.o.b. Dar-es-Salaam or Tanga. All prices are inconstant US dollars at January 1980 prices.
7.17 The prices tabulated above reflect the likelihood of supply short-ages continuing through 1983/84, and of real prices remaining at currentlevels. For the years 1984/85 through 1988/89, real prices are expectedto decline by 5% per annum, as supply and demand come into balance. After1988/89 prices are expected to stabilize in real terms, at the levels obtain-ing in early 1978. These price projections are made with a lower degree ofconfidence than would be the case for the majority of agricultural com-modities, reflecting the scarcity of hard information on the costs of pro-duction of pyrethroids. The sensitivity analysis of the economic rate ofreturn of the Project (para. 9.06) examines the consequences of major changesin the assumptions made as to future world market prices.
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VIII. YIELDS, FARMER RETURNS, PRODUCTION AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
A. Flower Yields and Pyrethrin Content
Dried Flower Yields
8.01 Under the standards of husbandry presently practiced in the Projectarea, the improved planting material (clone 59/347, which is fully tested) tobe idistributed to farmers under the Project is expected to raise annual yieldsof lried flowers per hectare from their 'without-project' levels of 125 kg inthe first year of planting and 290 kg each of the next two years, giving anoverall annual average of 235 kg (para. 2.22), to levels of 160 kg in thefirst year of planting and 370 kg in each of the next two years, giving anoverall annual average of 300 kg over the three-year productive plant life.These yield projections are considered conservative, (on well maintained farmsin rCanzania average yields from the close to be distributed are 570 kg. ofdried flowers per ha and research yields of over 1,000 kg/ha have beenobtained) and reflect the fact that the provision of extension services is notexpected to improve markedly during the period of IDA disbursement (para.2.12). In 1974, average flower yields in the Project area were estimated at270 kgs/ha. The unimproved planting material to be distributed under theProject would produce the same yields as in the 'without-Project' situation,i.e., an average of 235 kg/ha. Adoption by farmers of improved plantingmaterial would raise overall average yields to 260 kg/ha by 1984/85, the lastyear of Credit disbursements. An overall average yield of 300 kg/ha would bereached by 1989/90.
Pyrethrin Content
8.02 The improved planting material to be distributed under the Projectis expected to raise pyrethrin content from the present level of 1.10% to1.30%. In addition, the Project's road improvement component would reducemarketing delays and loss of pyrethrin content. It is expected that roadimprovements would result in 10% savings in pyrethrin content of flowers beingmarketed over the improved roads. The weighted average pyrethrin contentwould rise as a result from 1.30% to 1.34%. Again this is a conservativeasstumption; past pyrethrin content has reached this level, and the plantmaterial which would be distributed under the Project has produced pyrethrincontent of up to 1.76% under research conditions. The unimproved materialdistributed under the Project would produce flowers with the same pyrethrincontent as at present - 1.10%.
B. Farmer Returns and Incomes
Comparative Crop Returns
8.02, An analysis of returns per hectare and per man-day of labor, inboth the 'without-Project' and the 'with-Project' cases, is presented inAnnex 1, Table T-18, for pyrethrum and for maize, its main competitor. In the
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'without-Project' case, on the basis of 1979/80 producer prices and presentyields and pyrethrin content, pyrethrum production provides a net return perhectare of almost Tsh 1,400 per hectare, equivalent to Tsh 7.50 per man-day.At 1980/81 prices the net return per hectare rises to almost Tsh 1,750,equivalent to Tsh 9.48 per man-day. For maize grown using traditional prac-tices (i.e local seed and no fertilizer), yields of 850 kg/ha are average inthe Project area, producing net returns per ha of Tsh 820 and returns perman-day of Tsh 6.72. For maize grown using an improved production package(improved seed, fertilizer and pesticide) yields of 2,000 kg/ha are average inthe Project area, producing returns of Tsh 1,750 per ha and Tsh 10.85 perman-day. The extent to which the improved technical package for maize isavailable to farmers in pyrethrum-growing areas is not precisely known, butthe required inputs (which are distributed under the IDA-supported NationalMaize Project) do not appear to be available in more than 20% of pyrethrum-growing villages. It should be noted that, although returns per man-day forimproved maize exceed man-day returns for pyrethrum, even at 1979/80 pricesinclusion of pyrethrum in a farm's cropping pattern raises overall farm incomeby about 13%. This results from the fact that the labor input peaks forpyrethrum and for maize occur at different times of the year (para. 8.08) sothat cultivation of both provides better utilization of farm labor, and hencehigher overall farm income.
8.04 In the 'with' Project situation, the improvements in dried floweryield (para. 8.01) and pyrethrin content (para. 8.02) resulting from thedistribution under the Project of improved planting material would raise netreturns per ha, at 1980/81 prices, by 62% to over Tsh 2,800; returns perman-day would rise by 44%, to Tsh 13.68 (Annex 1, Table T-18). Pyrethrumproduction would thus have a substantial advantage in returns per man-day overeven improved maize production. Pyrethrum producer prices would need to fall21% below 1980/81, or maize prices to rise 26% above 1980/81 levels, in orderto equalize returns per man-day from the two crops.
8.05 There are, in addition to maize and pyrethrum, other crops grownby pyrethrum producers, although these are of lesser importance. Averagewheat yields of 540 kg/ha are obtained in the Project area; at 1980/81 prices,this results in returns per ha of Tsh 890, and returns per man-day of Tsh 7.23.Average sunflower yields are 400 kg/ha, resulting in returns per ha of Tsh 600and returns per man-day of Tsh 6.32. Average pea yields are 430 kg/ha, pro-ducing returns per ha of Tsh 390 and returns per man-day of Tsh 3.79. Averageyields of Irish potatoes are estimated at 5,000 kg/ha. At prevailing prices,this results in net returns per ha of Tsh 2,400, and returns per man-day ofTsh 24.00. For all these crops except Irish potatoes, pyrethrum provideshigher returns per man-day. In the case of Irish potatoes, despite theattractive returns, production is constrained by the limited demand.
Effect on Incomes
8.06 The effects of the Project on farm incomes is shown in Annex 1,Table T-19. For a typical pyrethrum-growing farm in the Project area, inthe 'without-Project' situation, total annual cash income is estimated atabout Tsh 2,550 (US$307). The value of subsistence is put at about Tsh 1,400
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(US$170) giving total net farm income of almost Tsh 4,000 (US$480), equivalenton a per capita basis (assuming six members per family) to Tsh 670 (US$80).The introduction of improved planting material under the Project is expectedto raise cash incomes by about 17%, to almost Tsh 3,000 (US$360) per family.Analysis of the farm labor profiles (para. 8.09 below) indicates that use ofimproved planting material would not require a decrease in the output of othercrops, so that total net farm income (including subsistence) would increase byabout 11%, to about Tsh 4,400 (US$530), equivalent on a per capita basis toUS$38. Table T-19 also details the effects on farm incomes of the distri-bution of unimproved planting material to families not currently growingpyrethrum. In this case, the area of maize cultivated would fall from 1.18ha to 1.00 ha. Despite this, cash income would rise by 18%, from Tsh 2,150(US$260) to Tsh 2,550 (US$307), and total net farm income would increase byabout 11%, from about Tsh 3,600 (US$430) to Tsh 3,950 (US$475), equivalentto Tsh 660 (US$80) on a per-capita basis.
Distribution of Direct Benefits
8.07 The direct benefits from the Project would accrue, at full develop-ment,to about 37,000 smallholder pyrethrum producing families (containingabout 200,000 individuals). Average per capita incomes of these individualsare estimated at Tsh 670 (US$80 equivalent). This average is below theabsolute rural poverty level in Tanzania, which is estimated at US$105. Itis estimated that about 85% of the Project's direct benefits would accrueto :individuals currently living in absolute poverty.
C. Production of Dried Flowers, Extract and Marc
Effects on Production Patterns
8.08 Annex 1, Table T-20 details crop labor profiles for these cropscommonly grown on pyrethrum producing farms. It is readily apparent thatpyrethrum and maize, the major crops, are complementary, in the sense thatthe peak labor requirements for these crops occur at widely differing timesof the year. The peak months for maize labor are July and August, themonths of land preparation and planting, and over 60% of the annual laborinput for maize cultivation occurs in the months July-December. For pyrethrum,on the other hand, the peak labor input occurs in January, February and March,the months of planting and peak flower production, and almost 70% of the totalannual labor input for pyrethrum cultivation takes place during the months ofJanuary through June.
8.09 Table T-20 also shows the overall pattern of labor use and avail-ability on a typical pyrethrum farm growing pyrethrum, maize, wheat, peasand other crops (potatoes, sunflower, beans, cabbages). Family labor (about45 man-days per month) is virtually fully utilized in August. Surplusfamily is available at other months of the year. The extra labor requirementsassociated with the use of improved planting material (a total of 23 man-dayper ha, for flower harvesting) occur at months outside this main labor peak,
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and hence will not result in reduced production of other crops. It is alsoclear from this labor input analysis that there is no scope for increasingthe area of pyrethrum planted per family, without reducing the area plantedto other crops. For purposes of the analysis of this Project, therefore,the assumption has been made that the introduction of improved plantingmaterial would not affect cropping patterns, and that the average producerwould continue to cultivate 0.4 ha of pyrethrum.
Dried Flower, Extract and Marc Production
8.10 The overall impact of the Project on flower production and extractand marc production is detailed in Annex 1, Tables T-21 and T-22 respectively,and summarized below:
Incremental Incremental Incremental Incremental /1 Incremental /2Flower Extract Marc Flower Extract & Marc
Production Production Production Value Value…m tons---------------- -----------Tsh '000-----------
/1 Valued at producer prices, in constant 1980 prices./2 Valued at export prices, in constant 1980 prices.
8.11 Incremental flower production is expected to be worth Tsh 7 millionto growers by 1984/85 (the last year of Project investments) and by this dateincremental extract and marc production would be worth Tsh 13.8 million. By1989/90, when all unimproved planting material would be phased out, incre-mental flower production would be worth about Tsh 18 million to growers, andthe value of incremental extract and marc production would be Tsh 27 million.
D. Financial Effects on TPB
8.12 In addition to the Project's capital costs, Project implementationwould also give rise to incremental expenditures of a recurrent nature whichwould be incurred by TPB during and after the five-year Idisbursement costsof the proposed IDA credit. These recurrent costs, which would be met by TPB
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from its trading margin on pyrethrum in the same way as other recurrent costs,include incremental flower collection and processing costs, incrementalvehicle operating and building maintenance costs, and the cost of operation ofbu:Lking centers and nurseries and of employing incremental staff after the endof the IDA credit disbursement period. These costs have been taken intoaccount into the projection for the period 1980/81-1989/90 (FY81-FY90), ofTP}3's 'with-project' income statements (Table T-23), balance sheets (TableT-24) and cash flow (Table T-25). These projections are all in currentprlces, on the assumption that domestic inflation in Tanzania would occur atannual rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent thereafter.
8.13 TPB's projected income statements show that TPB would make lossesof Tsh 6.4 million in FY81, Tsh 3.5 million in FY82 and Tsh 4.8 million inFY83. Thereafter, TPB would make positive after-tax profits ranging from 5%to 10% of net worth. TPB's projected balance sheets show that TPB's long termdebt/net worth ratio would reach a peak of 1.2:1 in FY82 and 83, and declinethereafter as TPB repays all its long-term debt by FY90. TPB's overdraftwould be eliminated by FY90. TPB's liquidity position would remain tightthrough FY83, but would improve thereafter. TPB's projected cash flow indicatesa consistently positive cash inflow throughout the period, with the exceptionof FY86, when expenditures on vehicle replacement would be needed. Over theperiod, TPB would have a cumulative net cash inflow of Tsh 21.5 million.Overall, therefore, TPB's financial prospects would be satisfactory.
8.1]4 The financial rate of return on TPB investments (in constant 1980prices) is estimated at 8%, and the pre-tax rate of return on equity at 9%.(Details are shown in Table T-26). The financial rate of return, althoughmaarginal, is acceptable, and the rate of return on equity is satisfac:tory.
E. Government Cash Flow Implications
8.15 The effects, in current price terms, of the Project on GOT's cashflow are detailed in Annex 1, Table T-27. Cash inflows to GOT would consistof IDA Credit disbursements, TPB loan interest and repayments, incrementalexport duties on extract exports and incremental income tax payments fromTPB. Cash outflows from GOT would provide for Project investments, servicecharges and repayment of the IDA Credit, and for the continued maintenanceof feeder roads improved under the Project and the continuance of thepyrethrum research program. Over the period of disbursement of the IDACredit, GOT would experience a cumulative cash outflow of Tsh 28.0 million.However, by the end of PYIO, GOT would have received a cumulative positivecash inflow of Tsh 10.9 million. The levels of expenditure on road main-tenance and on pyrethrum research would be considerably higher than expendi-ture in the past. Road maintenance costs are estimated, in 1980 prices, atTsh 1.1 million per annum, a substantial figure in comparison with the totalroad maintenance budgets for Iringa and Mbeya Regions which totalled Tsh 10.6million in 1978/79. However, the projected recurrent expenditures are
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reasonable, and the fact that they would require increases in present levelsof recurrent allocations reflects the fact that road maintenance and researchexpenditures in Tanzania are currently too low. As indicated in paras. 5.16and 5.27, assurances were obtained during negotiations that GOT would providethe required levels of recurrent funding for road maintenance and researchafter completion of disbursement by IDA.
F. Foreign Exchange Implications
8.16 The foreign exchange impact of the Project would be favorable(Annex 1, Table T-28). Over the period 1980/81 through 1985/86, the Projectwould generate net foreign exchange earnings in current prices, of Tsh 55.1million (US$6.6 million). There would be a net foreign exchange outflowof Tsh 18.8 million (US$2.3 million) in 1980/81, as a result of disbursementsfrom the IDA credit lagging behind Project expenditures. Over the ten-yearperiod from 1980/81 through 1989/90, the Project would generate cumulativenet foreign earnings, in current terms, of Tsh 229.6 million (US$27.7 million).
IX. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND JUSTIFICATION
Economic Benefits
9.01 The major quantifiable economic benefits of the Project would bethe foreign exchange earned by the export of the incremental production ofpyrethrum extract and marc expected to result from Project investments(para. 8.10). In addition, the roads component, as well as contributingto the incremental production of pyrethrins (para. 8.02) would also resultin road user cost savings, which would accrue to the users of the roadsimproved and maintained under the Project. These road user cost benefitshave been quantified very conservatively; account has been taken only of roaduser cost savings relating to pyrethrum, since data does not exist to enablequantification of benefits accruing to other road users. However, these otherbenefits are likely to be substantial, particularly in the Umalila zone, fromwhich significant quantities of maize are extracted.
9.02 Since incremental extract and marc production resulting from theProject would be exported, it has been valued in constant 1980 prices atprojected export prices (para. 7.15), adjusted to reflect the divergenceof economic and financial exchange rates in the Tanzania economy by shadow-pricing foreign exchange at a rate of US$1 = Tsh 12. Details of the deriva-tion of economic prices for incremental marc and extract production are inAnnex 1, Table T-29. Foreign exchange has also been shadow-priced in thecalculation of road user cost benefits.
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9.03 In addition to these quantifiable benefits, the Project is alsoexpected to result in some unquantifiable benefits. Investments in improvedflower drying techniques would be expected to result in savings of pyrethrins.Investments in pyrethrum research would be expected to produce plants withhigh yields of flowers having high pyrethrin content. Institution-buildinginvestments within TPB would be expected to result in an organization thatwould be more cost-conscious and better able to plan the future developmentof the sub-sector.
Economic Costs
9.04 The economic costs that have been taken into account in the economicanalysis of the Project are the capital costs (including physical contingen-cies) of the smallholder production program (except for the drying study anddrying investments, for which no benefits have been claimed), of the strength-ening of TPB, and of the roads component. The costs of the research invest-ments have been excluded, since no benefits have been included in the economicanalysis. A total of 81% of Project capital costs has been includedfor the purposes of economic analysis. In addition to these capital costs,incremental recurrent costs for farm labor input, flower collection andprocessing, vehicle operations and building maintenance have been included.The value of maize production foregone as a result of the distribution of un-improved planting material (para. 8.06) has also been included; a yield of2,000 kgs/ha has been assumed, and this has been valued at import parityprices, less costs of marketing and production (including labor). Incrementalfarm labor used under the Project has been shadow priced at 50% ofprevailing minimum agricultural wage rates. A recent study has indicatedthat a shadow wage rate of 65% would be appropriate on a nationalbasis and this has been adjusted downwards to reflect the isolation ofthe Project area and the greater-than-average lack of alternative income-earning opportunities. In the calculation of all economic costs, foreignexchange has been shadow-priced at a rate of US$1=Tsh 12.00. The Project isnot expected to have any undesirable environmental effects.
Economic Rate of Return
9.05 The internal economic rate of return (IERR) of the Project hasbeen calculated for the Project over a 20-'year period. In addition tocalculating the IERR for the Project as a whole, IERRs have been calculatedseparately for the distribution of unimproved planting material, for thesmallholder production component (excluding the unimproved planting materialprogram and the drying studies and investments) and the TPB institutionbuilding component taken together, and for the roads component (Table T-30).The result of these analyses are:
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Percent of ProjectComponent IERR Capital Costs
Unimproved Planting Material 30% 4%Smallholder Production Componentplus TPB strengthening /1 18% 54%
/1 Excluding the unimproved planting program and the drying studyand investments.
Sensitivity Analysis and Risks
9.06 Sensitivity analysis has been undertaken to examine the effects ofchanges in cost and benefit assumptions on the IERR of the Project. This gavethe following results:
Changes in Assumption Resulting IERR
Benefits reduced by 10% 14%Benefits reduced by 20% 12%Costs increased by 10% 15%Costs increased by 20% 13%Costs increased by 10% and benefits reduced by 10% 12%Costs increased by 20% and benefits reduced by 20% 8%Without Shadow Pricing' 11%
The IERR is thus relatively robust with respect to changes in cost andbenefit assumptions. In particular, the assumptions made with referenceto the future sales price of pyrethrum products could be lowered consider-ably without rendering the IERR unacceptable. These prices would need to beabout 30% below projected values before the IERR would fall to 10%.
9.07 One major risk faced by the Project would be a future collapse ofpyrethrum export prices as a result of the development of new substitutes, orthe cheapening of existing substitutes. However, current research is aimedmostly towards developing agricultural chemicals, which would not competewith pyrethrum. Pyrethroid production costs are increasing as a result ofrising oil costs, and the cost of licensing new insecticides further protectspyrethrum's market position. In any case, the IERR is robust with respect toa shortening of the period over which the IERR is carried out. A fifteen-yeareconomic horizon results in an IERR of 15%. A further major risk of theProject is that implementation would proceed at a slower pace than anticipated,as a result of institutional deficiencies within TPB, MOW, RIMU or UAC. Thisrisk has been minimized by inclusion in the Project of substantial amounts oftechnical assistance for all of these institutions. The IERR would be 12% ifbenefits were lagged a year behind costs.
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X. AGREEMENTS REACHED AND RECOMMENDATION
10.01 During negotiations, assurances were obtained that:
(a) th- Borrower would continue to review and adjust pyrethrumproducer prices annually, taking into account export prices,TPB operating costs and the producer prices of other crops(para. 2.20);
(b) TPB would continue to produce and distribute improved plantingmaterial to farmers after the completion of IDA disbursements(para 5.06);
(c) Kilimo, TPB and the Iringa and Mbeya Regional authoritieswould, not later than June 30, 1982, review and discuss withIDA the adequacy of extension services for the Project Area(including the number of extension staff and arrangements forsupervision of village level staff, and, if necessary, proposalsfor improvement of such services) (para. 5.10);
(d) consultants employed under the Project would be recruitedin accordance with IDA guidelines and that their terms ofreference and conditions of employment would be acceptableto IDA (paras. 5.11, 5.16 and 5.19);
(e) the TPB would establish a credit scheme to enable its staffto purchase the motorcycles provided under the Project, andwould pay staff monthly operating allowances for these vehicles(para 5.13);
(f) after the period of IDA disbursements, GOT would continue toallocate adequate funds for the continuation of the pyrethrumresearch program expanded under the Project (para. 5.16);
(g) GOT would assist TPB, UAC and MOW as necessary to acquire thesites for offices and housing to be constructed under theProject (paras. 5.16, 5.21, and 5.26);
(h) the RDMU would be established under the control of theDirector of Roads and Aerodomes in MOW not later thanMarch 31st, 1981 (para 5.25);
(i) not later than March 31, 1984, GOT would review the capacity
of the regional works divisions in Mbeya and Iringa to takeover maintenance of the roads improved under the Project, andwould furnish to IDA proposals regarding the responsibility forcontinued maintenance of the roads improved under the Project andthat RIMU equipment would, after completion of the Project's roadcomponent, be used for the maintenance of roads improved under theProject or for the development and maintenance of other feederroads in Mbeya and Iringa Regions (para. 5.27);
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(j) throughout the Project period adequate funds would be budgetedby GOT for the maintenance of all main and local main roadsused for the transportation of pyrethrum in the Project area,and that adequate funds would be budgeted after the con-struction period for the maintenance of roads improved undetthe Project (para 5.27);
(k) TPB, UAC and RDMU would carry out the Project in accordance withdetailed annual work plans. In the case of TPB and UAC, thefirst of these plans (relating to 1980/81) would be sent to IDAfor review not later than May 31, 1980. Subsequent plans wouldbe sent to IDA for review by March 31st preceding the GOTfiscal year to which they relate. In the case of RIMU, thefirst work plan (stating to 1981/82) would be sent to IDA forreview by 31st May 1980. Subsequent plans would be sent forIDA review by March 31st preceding the GOT fiscal year to whichthe work program relates (paras. 6.01, 6.02 and 6.03);
(1) IDA would be consulted, prior to appointment, on the suitability,in terms of qualifications and experience, of candidates for theposts of Financial Controller, Planning and Production Agronomist,Field Agronomist, Research Officer, Roads Engineer, ConstructionSupervisor and Mechanical Supervisor; that IDA would be consultedprior to the appointment of successor staff to these positions;that internationally-recruited staff would be employed underterms and conditions satisfactory to IDA; that the ResearchOfficer, Field Agronomist and Planning and Production Agronomistwould be appointed no later than September 30, 1980 and the RoadEngineer, Mechanical Superintendent and Construction Supervisor nolater than March 31, 1981; and that the posts of Planning andProduction Manager, Iringa Regional Manager and Mbeya RegionalManager would continue, during the Project period, to be filled bysuitably qualified staff (para. 6.04);
(m) by August 31, 1981, TPB would have updated its accounts, anddesigned and begun the implementation of improved financialsystems (6.08);
10.02 Conditions of Credit effectiveness would be:
(a) completion of an on-lending agreement satisfactoryto IDA between GOT and TPB (para. 5.31);
(b) appointment of a Financial Controller, after consultationwith IDA on qualifications and experience (para. 6.04).
10.03 It would be a condition of disbursement against the funds forinvestment in improved drying facilities that agreement had been reachedbetween IDA and TPB on the consultants' recommendations and their detailedimplementation (para. 5.11).
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10.04 It would be a condition of disbursement against TPB purchase oftrucks, four-wheel-drive vehicles and motorcycles that a study by consultantsof TPB transport management had been completed, and agreement reached betweenTIEB and IDA on implementation of its recommendations (para. 5.19).
10.05 The above assurances having been obtained, the proposed Projectwould constitute a suitable basis for an IDA Credit of US$10.0 million onstandard terms to the Government of Tanzania.
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PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Supporting Charts and Tables
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TANZANIA ASaNEX 1PYRETHRUM PROJECT Chart C-1
PROPOSED ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF TANGANYIKA PYRETHRUM BOARD
MINISTRY OF AGRCICURTU
TF ES BOARD OF OIRECTORS
EOECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
AA CIEF7 eECTTE
I AIGFCOTOR I PE ADINS TRTONNE RUEIEI MARKET NO FFANN STATISTICA COO FINANCIALI
Net income 104 497 (53) (1,184) (3,037)(as percent of revenue) (14) (25) (--) (-5) (-13)(as percent of net worth) (4) (5) (-) (-7) (-9)
1/ TPB did not become involved in flower purchasing until 1976/77.2/ In 1976/77, TPB sold its flowers to TECO, who handled processing and marketing.3/ Management fee paid by TECO, based on export realizati,on of processed output.4/ Levy paid to TPB by TECO on each kilogram of flowers delivered to TECO.5/ Including flower transport, cost of bags, etc.6/ Includes maintenance costs.7/ Payment by GOT to TPB to cover the costs of pyrethrum development.8/ Includes in 1976/77 a payment of Tsh 1 million from TECO to TPB to enable TPB to write off a loan from a
foreign bank. This item is included as income, although in fact it was more of a capital transfer.
Total net worth & liabilities Q l462 11,066 252156 53,597
Long-term debt/net worth ratio 5/ neg neg neg 36:64 40:60
Current asset/current liabilities ratio 0.5:1 3.1:1 1.0:1 1.0:1 0.9:1
1/ Construction of the new pyrethrum processing plant at Mafinga2/ A loan from a private foreign bank.3/ Two loans from the Tanzania Investment Bank to finance part of the costs of the Mafinga Extraction Plant.
One loan is for Tsh 18.6 million, repayable over 10 years at 10 percent annual interest. The second isfor Tsh 8.9 million, repayable over 11 years (with one year of grace) at an annual interest rate of 11percent.
4/ Payments from the Government budget for nursery development and for the Government contribution towardsthe costs of the Mafinga plant.
5/ 'Neg' indicates that long-term debt is negligible.
Zebruary 23, 1980
TANZANIA
PYRETNiRUM PROJECT
Projected TPB 'Without-Project' Income Statements 1/
(as percent of revenue) (-9) (-2) (-) (3) (7) (5) (5) (4) (1) (1) (2)(as percent of net worth) (-8) (-3) (-) (5) (14) (9) (9) (6) (2) (1) (3)
1/ In current prices,assuming annual inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent thereafter.2/ On the basis of flower production patterns as in para. 2.23, with the extract and marc from flowers purchased by TPB in one year assumed sold in
the following year. v
3/ On the basis of the export prices detailed in para. 7.16.4/ On the basis of producer prices as projected in para. 2.22.5/ Including transportation costs and the costs of bags. '6/ Processing in 1979/80 takes place in Arusha; TPB processing costs in that year are sufficient to meet full costs of processing. In succeeding
years, processing assumed to take place in TPB's Mafinga plant.7/ Costs of administration assumed to increase by 2 percent per annum in real terms through 1984/85, and to remain constant in real terms thereafter.8/ Overhead costs of operation of Mafinga plant.9/ At an annual interest rate of 10 percent.
1/ In current prices, assuming annual inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent in succeeding years._/ Since the major asset of TECO, (the Arusha processing plant), is no longer required after 1979/80, TPB's interest in this is assumed writteni off
in 1980/81.3/ The Mafinga plant is expected to comsence operations at the beginning 6f 1980/81.4/ The Mafinga plant has been depreciated at the following a:,cmal rates: 4 percent on the factory buildings, 8 percent on tmwhinery, 20 percent on
vehicles, 15 percent on furniture and fittings and 20 percent on pre-operational expenditures.5/ It is assumed that the amount due for 'ITECO (representing accumulated profits) is transferred to TPB once the Arusha processing plant is closed.6/ Two loans from the Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) for the construction of the Mafinga plant. One loan is for Tsh 18.6 million, repayable over
10 years at a 10 percent annual interest rates. The second is for Tsh 8.9 million, repayable over 11 years (with one year of grace) at an Hanntual interest rate of 11 percent.
7/ Payments for Government in previous years nursery development, and Government contribution towards the costs of construction of the Mafinga mplant.
1/ In current prices, assuming annuial inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percenIt in 1981 and 9 percent thereafter.
2/ For construction of the Mafinga plant.
3/ Final installment of loan for the Mafinga plant.
4/ Accumulated earnings transferred from TECO to TPB after the Arusha processing plant is no longer required.
5/ Two loans for TIB for construction of the Mafinga plant. The first is for T h 18.6 million, repayshle over 10 years at a 10 percent annual
interest rate. The second is for Tsh 8.9 million, repayable over 11 years (with one year of grace) it an annual interest rate of 11 percent.
February 23, 1980 H>
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ANNEX 1-64- Table T-9
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Road im.provement Program
RoadMbeya Region Classification Km
Group I: Santilya-Ilembo District 13Ilembo-Ibaba District 27Access Road to Izombwe Feeder 6Access Road to Masoko Feeder 7Access Road to Mbagala Feeder 3Access Road to Mbawi Feeder 4
Group II: Access Road to Mwela Feeder 10Access Road to Nyalwella Feeder 4Access Road to Ngolo Feeder 8Access Road to Ilungo-Manshese Feeder 10
Sub-total 92
Iringa Region
Group III: Access Road to Kinyike Feeder 6Access Road to Mlondwe Feeder 10Access Road to Lugonda Feeder 3
Group IV: Bulongwe-Kitulo District 45
Group V: Jct.Ivilikingi-Kitulo District 23Access Road to Ivilikingi Feeder 8
Group VI: Mangoto-Ibaga Feeder 12
Group VII: Access Road to Mahenye Farm Feeder 5Sub-total 112
Total 204
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ANNEX 1Table T-lO
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Roads Component - Equipment List and Cost
Number Unit Costj/ Total Cost FE % FE Cost---…=(Tsh '000)-------- (Tsh '000) (US$ '000)
Heavy PlantCrawler Tractor (Angle Razer
and Ripper (180-220HP)) 1 1,140.7 1,140.7 95 1,083.7 130.6Motor Grader (115-135HP) 2 629 1,258 95 1,195.2 144Front End Wheel Loader (15 m
PYl PY2 PY3 PY4 PY51980/81 1981/82 1982/83 1983/84 1984/85 Total FE % FE Amount---------------------(Figures in Tsh '000)-------------------- (Tsh '000)
Smallholder Production Program 1/Improved Planting Material Program 650 1,040 1,370 1,330 1,330 5,720 40 8 285Unimproved Planting Material Program 1,266 955 585 --- --- 2,806 12 340
Pest Control Program 145 70 75 80 80 450 75TPB Extension Service 180 232 232 232 232 1,108 --- ---Drying Study and Investments 300 950 500 500 500 2,750 68 1,870Flower stores/buying centers 981 774 1,177 --- --- 2,932 37 1,076Vehicles 3,955 --- ___ --- ----- 3,955 83 3,280
Total Cost 9,168 5,346 5,768 3,305 3,593 27,186 47 12,705
1/ Includes cost of labor, insecticides, fertilizers, nematocides, tools and the transport of planting material to the bulkingcenters.
2/ Includes cost of labor, insecticides, fertilizers, nematocides, tools and the transport of planting material to the villagenurseries.
3/ Includes cost of labor, insecticides, fertilizers and nematocides and tools.4/ Includes cost of labor, fertilizer and nematocides and tools.5/ 100 sprayers at a unit cost of Tsh 850.6/ Calcul,ated on basis of use of 2 1. of sumithion insecticide annually on 5 percent of planted area.7/ Incremental certificate-level staff -- 12 in 1980/81, 16 in succeeding years.8/ Incremental diploma-level staff -- two in 1980/81 and succeeding years.9/ A four man-month reconnaissance survey followed by a detailed six man-month study.10/ To implement the findings of the consultant study.11/ Stores of 90 m
2would be built as follows: in 1980/81, at Ujuni, Kilolo, Kipanga, Santilya and Ilembo; in 1981/82, at
Lupila and Ipelele; and in 1982/83 at Uwemba, Simambwe, Bulambya, Igoma, Matamba and Lufilyo. A 175 m2
store would bebuilt at Ndulamo in 1981/82. The base unit cost for construction of these stores has been taken as Tsh 2,000 per m
2.
12/ Design fees of 6% of construction cost, supervision fees of 3%.13/ Five fcur-wheel drive vehicles, for regional field staff.
4/ Twentv-two motorcycles for extension staff.15/ Tvelve high-side seven-tor. trucks.
February 23, 1980
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TANZANIA ANNEYC ITable T-14
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Research Program: Cost Summary
PY1 PY2 PY3 PY4 PY51980/81 1981/82 1982/83 1983/84 1984/85 Total FE % FE Amount_____ ........ ___--(Figures in Tah '000) … … ……---------- (Tsh '000)
Total Cost 3,476 5,888 2,867 2,881 3,277 18,419 11,554
1/ Consisting of a laboratory and an incubator room, with a total area of 113 m2, at a unit cost of Tsh 3,750 per m2.
2/ Of 126 m2, at a unit cost of Tsh 4,000 per m
2.
3J One type H-108 (108 m2), 1 H-82 (82 m
2) and 4 H-60 (60 a1
2), at a cost per m
2of Tsh 3,000 for H-108, 2,600 for H-82 and 2,200
for H-60 plus furniture for each house.4/ At a rate of 6% of construction cost for design and 3% for supervision.5/ Plant selection equipment, pyrethrin content testing equipment and laboratory equipment.6/ 6 motorcycles, for the Field Office and Field Assistants.7/ For the Research Officer.8/ Internationally-recruited.9/ One Field Officer (Diploma), 5 Field Assistants (Certificate holders), 2 Laboratory Assistants and a driver.10/Provides for the operation at full development (1982/83 and after) of four hectares of selection fields at Uyole and a
total of ten hectares at five outstations, at a unit cost of Tah 18,000 per hectare.fl/Provides for a trip by chartered aircraft in 1981/82 and in 1983/84 to exchange planting material with neighboring
pyrethrum producing countries.12/Operating costs of a four-wheel-drive vehicle (30,000 kms annually at Tsh 3.0 per km) and 6 motor cycles (10,000 km each
at cost of Tsh 1.0 per km).13/Research support on a contract basis from an overseas university specializing in tissue culture. Annual costs estimated
at Tsh 230,000 for staff, Tsh 230,000 for services provided (printing, use of glasshouses, etc), Tsh 46,000 for traveland Tsh 116,000 for subsistence.
14/ Three months of short term consultancy in 1980/81 and one month in 1982/83 (at a cost per man-month of Tsh 75,000) toadvise on tissue culture.
15/ Provides for study tours in 1980/81 and 1982/83 to pyrethrum producing countries and countries using tissue culturetechniques, and for attendance by laboratory personnel in 1981/82 and 1983/84 at courses in tissue culture techniques.
16/ Provision for MSC course for Tanzanian research worker.
February 23, 1980
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TANZANIA ANNEX 1Table T-15
PYRETHRUN?, PROJECT
Strengthening of TPB: Coat SummarY
PYi FY2 y4 r1980/SiL l981/8 2_:2283 1983184 1984/85 Toftal FE FE Amount
1/ Internationally recruited at an estimated annual cost inclusive of benefits of Tsh 580,000 (US$ 70,000).2/ Cost Accountant and Internal Auditor, assumed to be expatriate staff recruited locally at an annual cost of
Tsh 90,000 (US$ 11,000).3/ PlannirLg Officer, Statistician/Evaluation Officer, Procurement Officer and Transport Officer, all at anl
annual cost of Tsh 40,000.4/ To be carried out in an estimated six man-months by the National Institute of Productivity.5/ A two-week training course at Uyole for all TPB field staff in 1980/81, at a cost per staff member of Tsh 2,000,
followed by refresher courses for half of TPB's field staff each year, at a cost of Tsh 1,400 per staf:- member.6/ For training of staff in management, marketing, finance and personnel administration.7/ For training o5 staff at local training institutions in factory management, administration and finance.8/ Of size 1150 m at a cost per m of Tsh 3,200.9/ Of size 190 m2 at a cost per m
2of Tsh 3,000.
10/ Of size 100 m2 at a cost per m22of Tsh 2,800.
l1/ Of size 108 m2 at a cost per m of Tsh 3,000.12/ Of size 82 m2 at a cost per m
2of Tsh 2,600.
13/ Of size 60 m2at a cost per m
2of Tsh 2,200.
14/ At a cost of 6% of construction cost for design and 3% for-supervision.15/ At a cost of Tsh 54,000 for each senior staff house, Tsh 40,000 for each middle-level staff house and Ish 10,000
for each Junior staff house.16/ Five four-wheel-drive vehicles, for the Financial Controller, the two agronomists, the Planning and Production
Manager and the Executive Officer.
February 23, 1980
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Roads Component: Cost Summary
PYl PY2 PY3 PY4 PY5
1980/81 1981/82 1982/83 1983/84 1984/85 Total FE % b Amount
Return per hectare (Tsh) 1,391.3 1,744.3 2,831.3 820 1,751
Return per man-day (Tsh) 7.5 9.48 13.68 6.72 10.85
1/ Pyrethrum producer prices as in para. 2.20. The producer.price of maize is Tsh 1.00 per kg in both 1979/80 and 1980/81.
2/ Since pyrethrum has a productive life of three years,the establishment costs have been allocated over a three-year period. This is equivalent to
assuming that producers have a 'balanced' pyrethrum area, with one-third first year, one-third second year and one-third third year.
3/ The input prices charged to farmers are subsidized to fifty percent of full market cost. 13>
October 19, 1979
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Typical Farm Budgets
Without Project With Project Faru not growing Pyrethrum iiCrops Crop Area Labor Input Net Income Crop Area Labor Input Net Income Crop Area Labor Input Net Income
Cash income 2,548 2,973 2,156(Per capita) 9/ 425 499 359
1/ It is assumed that, on farms not growing pyrethrum, maize acreage is expanded until labor utilization in the peakmonth equals family labor availability.
2/ Using returns per ha from Table T-18 and labor input from Table T-20.3/ On the basis of improved cultivation techniques, giving returns per ha in Table T-18, and using labor input figures
from Table T-20.4/ On the basis of average yields of 540 kg per hectare at the 1980/81 producer price of Tsh 1.65 per kg.5/ On the basis of average yields of 430 kg per hectare at the prevailing market price of Tsh 0.90 per kg. >6/ On the basis of: (a) 0.1 ha of sunflower at a yield of 600 kg per ha and a selling price of Tsh 1.50 per kg. a z
(b) 0.2 ha of beans, at a yield of 450 kg per ha and a selling price of Tsh 2.00 per kg.(c) 0.1 ha of Irish potatoes, at a yield of 5,000 kg per ha and a selling price of Tsh 0.80 per kg.(d) 0.1 ha of cabbages, with an average value per ha of Tsh 3,500.
7/ Including subsistence crops, valued at producer prices.8/ On the basis of retention of 800 kg of maize, 90 kg of beans, all of the cabbages produced and 100 kg of Irish
potatoes, which represents sufficient food to meet basic needs.9/ Assuming 6 members per family.
October 19, 1979
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Farm Labor Profiles
July August September October November December January FebruarY March April may June Total
1/ On the basin of yield for unimproved eaterial of 125 kg/ha for first year plants and 290 kg/ha fot plants in each of t:their sercod mod third years, giving an average yield over the three-year productive life of 235 kg/ha.
2/ I-cludiog plants of 500 ha in FYI, 600 ha in PY2 and 600 ha in PY3 under the Project's short-tern planting program.(para. 5.07).
3/ Planting under the Pro3jet's lung-torn planting program. Includes replanting of two hectares for each one hectare ofitproved rsotriol uprooted af toe thnee years.
4/ Ic the basis of yields for isproved plant saterial of 160 kg/ha for first year plants and yields of 370 kg/hafur plants in -,rch of their second and third years.
S/ Total 'With Project' production less 'Without Project' production.
October 10, 1979
TANZANIA
PYRETHRUM PROJECT
Pvrethrin Content, Crude Extract and Marc Production
Total marc production (m tons) 1,731.7 1.839.7 2,112.4 2,422.3 2,57).: .35. 2,940.4 i.0('4.6 3,125.8 3,081.3 3,214.5Incremental marc production --- 45.8 174.9 342.7 423.i 8,M.§ - &h, 883.4 838.9 1,064.7
1/ Flowers processed in each year are assumed to be those grown in the previous year.2/ 25 percent crude extract3/ Increases in years 1983/84-1985/86 as a result of the Project's roads components, which reduces the loss in pyrethrin content
during transport and storage. It is assumed (see para. 8.02) that 10 percent of the pyrethrins content is saved for these iflowers transported over the improved roads, and as a result the pyrethrin content rises to 1.212 on these flowers. - M
4! For improved flowers, pyrethrin content on some flowers will rise to 1.43% as a result of the roads component (see 3/ above). rx
(As percenl: of revenue) (-13) (-6) (-7) (2) (3) (2) (3) (3) (4) (4)(As percent of net worth) (-17) (-9) (-12) (5) (6) (5) (7) (7) (10) (9)
1/ In current prices assuming annual inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent thereafter.2/ On the basis of para. 2.22.3/ On the basis of Table T-
2,
41 On the basis of Table T-22.5/ On the basis of Table T-29.6/ On the basis of para. 8.02.71 Including transport costs and the costs of bags.8/ Costs of administration increase by 2 percent annually in real terms through 1984/85 and remain constant thereafter.9/ Costs of local extension and HQ staff included in Project costs through 1984/85; thereafter met by TPB. Costs give in Table T-23.
10/ Costs of operating the 4 WD vehicles and motor cycles purchased under the Project. Costs of operating trucks covered unier flower collection costs.11/ On the basis of 2 percent per asnum for the offices, houses and stores constructed under the Project.12/ The cost of operating bulking centers and village nurseries assumed met by TPR after 1984/85.13/ At an annuLal interest rate of 10 percent.
Current asset/current liability ratio 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 1.0:1 1.8:1 1.0:1 1.1:1 1.2: 1.7:1 2,4:1
1/ On the basis of annual inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent thereafter2/ Includes the buildings and vehicles financed under the Project.i/ Expenditure under the Project on all items excluding buildings and vehicles.4/ Two loans from TIB to finance the construction of the Mafinga extraction plant. One loan is for Tshs 8.6 million, repayable over 10
years at a 10 percent annual interest rate. The second is for Tsh 8.9 million, repayable over 11 years (with one year of grace) at an annual interest rate of 11 percent. t s|/ A loan from GOT under the Project for strengthening TPB. The loan is at an annual interest rate of 10 percent, and is for ten years, including five years of grace on repayment 0'
of the principal. H -6/ To finance smallholder development under the Project.
1./ le eoelut 19888 pit-.2/ The differe-ee belseece net io-eo pre-tCe pIes depreciarion io the 'with-Project aed the oitboet-PtojOct& aittatioo, deflated to
..e eust 1998 price.2/ The differoec- bet.en. greee fiord assots if Ihl w.ith-Project' aed 'eithbut-Projeet' titsatioe, deflated to o-stuet 1980 prices.4/ Defloted to cosutant 1980 prites.5/ Rute of return on eet benefite before finaecies./ Rate of return ee set b-nofite after flnaecie.8
1/ In current prices, assuming annual inflation rates of 11 percent in 1980, 10 percent in 1981 and 9 percent in succeeding years.2/ Assuming continuance of present duty rate of Tsh 2,200 per m ton.3/ Difference between 'With-Project' and 'Without-Project' TPB income tax payments.4/ Maintenance of feeder and access roads improved under the Project.5/ Assumes maintenance of research program at its 1984/85 level.
Net price, ex Mafings 844 950 788 869 711 757 639 653 569 552 50 457
1/ In constant January 1980 prices2/ On the basis of a shadow foreign exchange rate of Tsh ]2.00=US$1.003/ On the basis of prices as in para. 7.16.4/ On the basis of 0.8 percent of FOB vaue._/ By road, with a foreign exchange content of 70 percent6/ Including documentation, agency fee, etc. >7/ At a flat rate of Tsh 2,200 per m to,l of extract.