From our Correspondent in Mbeya Tanzania’s peasant farming will be revolutionarised by farmers using science and technology in order to increase yield per hectare. Minister in the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Governments George Simbachawene told a closing ceremony of Nanenane celebrations here today (August 8, 2017)  that   the way to introduce productivity in traditional peasant farming  is to use science and technology in order to increase yields in small plots. The minister closed the festivities on behalf of the Vice-President, Ms Suluhu Hassani. Increase of yields, the minister said, might be a panacea to intermittent, sometime violent,   clashes between peasants and workers.  He also said bumper yields are needed to feed industries with raw materials. He said while Tanzania’s population swells its size remains the same. “At Independence we were 12 million, but now we are roughly 50 million; we have increase...