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Challenges in promoting agricultural innovations under public- private partnership: experiences from a project on enhancing sunflower production for poverty alleviation in Mvomero and Kilosa districts, Morogoro, Tanzania
(Exclusive Journal publishing house, 2016) Mwajombe, Kizito Kayanda; Mattee, Amon Z; Mabebe, Ntumva Erasmus; Haule, Sylvester Charles; Malisa, Emmanuel T
Promoting agricultural innovations and technologies among smallholder farmers can be enhanced through Public Private Partnership (PPP). This study attempted to explore challenges faced while promoting agricultural innovations under PPP based on experiences from a project on Enhancing Sunflower Production in Kilosa and Mvomero Districts in Tanzania. Despite of the benefits attained by partners including farmers having an opportunity to learn new agronomic practices and learning by doing and testing new sunflower varieties through trials conducted under Farmer Field Schools, among the challenges identified include partners’ divergent objectives and expectations which stalled the whole process of partnership and necessitated a re-planning of the project