‘My bananas were seized and destroyed’

Tanzania, Tanzania, Tanzania, among the adjacent regional trade, squeezing people who are trying to ban the goods from Malawi.

On Friday, the Businessammen told the BBC that some compatriots were arrested in Tanzania’s second day of the ban on Malawi and South Africa’s agricultural imports.

“My bananas were seized and destroyed. At present, our work has been lost, and we are just a little money,” he said.

Diplomatic efforts failed to address the dispute, but the Minister of Agriculture of Tanzania said that the new talks continue.

Last month, Malawi was imported from Tanzania, rice, ginger, banana and corn, other countries and other countries, to protect local producers.

South Africa has banned the entrance of banana from Tanzania for years.

On Thursday, Tanzania’s Minister of Agriculture Hussein Bajar, said the trade restrictions from the country of trade restrictions from the country as “unfair and harmful”.

In order to protect our work interests, “Jobs declared that the two countries were immediately banned from the import of all agricultural imports.

The flow of trade was very impressed in Kasumulu – in the official border between Tanzania and Malawi.

BBC, Karonga’s Malawia district, when the traders visit, women, mainly decay their tones slowly, and then the tones are slowly discarded after the entrance to Tanzania.

“The losses I pulled are great because I can’t get anything again and do not know how to feed my children,” June Mwamwaja said.

However, Tanzanian traders were also hit.

Minister of Agriculture of Tanzania on Saturday Sent a video on social media from a pile of rotten banana In a truck that prevents Malawi entering.

Tanzania trucks were recently damaged by trucks entering Malawi.

Like Jeniffa Mshani, Malawia traders prefer agricultural goods from Tanzania, because it was easier and more favorable to pass through the border.

“Tanzanian products are very good in the market and their prices are good. Our local (Malawi) products are more expensive. I have nothing. I just can’t be.

He said that Tanzania produced, especially potatoes, bigger and better quality.

Others said that customers described tanzanian soweys on Malawanians, as a taster as before, and the second said they have a sponge very often.

However, from Thursday, the Malavian power in both the border and nearby markets, it is often stiffening – often arrests traders with Tanzanian products.

“When we bring goods from Tanzania, we return us. One of us stopped and arrested on the border.” Another trader said.

Some said some rich businessmen were still blocked when they were allowed to transport goods on the border.

“They target us with small capital, and those with great money are still the goods,” said Ms. Channya, who sells potatoes and bananas in the Karonga market.

After the experiment, some traders secretly showed their goods to secretly, and fearfully showing him clearly.

“We only carry three or four bunches (bananas), just to earn money for children,” he said.

Kasumulu’nun normal extent, the transition to the shadow of the trees, the drivers were tidy with ordinary, while others laid or slept behind trucks.

They refused to quote directly, but they explained that they were just waiting for words to do other than their cartridges.

In a normal day, more than 15 trucks loaded with agricultural products pass through the border, the drivers reported to the BBC.

Malawi’s Ministry of Commerce spokesman Patrick Botha, local media still did not receive official communication on the issue, he said.

“We hear this from social media. In the appropriate time, we will comment,” he said.

According to Tanzanian figures, in recent years, it became an increasingly important market for Tanzanian goods.

However, Malawi Mala Malawi will have to rebuild Malawi Malawi, to export the rest of the world to the rest of the world as tobacco, sugar and soybeans.

Tanzania, including various fruits, including various fruits, including different fruits, will ban the extent of South Africa exported to Tanzania. South African government does not comment yet.

Africa comes at a time when a continent operating four years ago is expected to go to a more freestyle trade area by creating an extensive trade area.

Additional report by Wycliffe Muia