consequently three of the five targeted regions for fertiliser and seed inputs have been reporting huge surpluses eg mbeya region alone had an officially recorded tons surplus of rice such that at any one time government godowns with a carrying capacity of about tons are always full compelling the government to lift food export bans which have prevailed since independence the government announced in parliament that it intends to promote cereals as a tradable good without export restrictions in paddy individual farmers have achieved yields up to tons per hectare compared with the commercial farm s yield of between and tons per hectare this indicates that given the right package of support smallholder farmers can achieve the desired results japan china and korea investments in irrigated agriculture in east africa dakawa tanzania uganda north of lake kioga and kenya mwea irrigation schemes privatepublic partnership ppp approach to uplift technology uptake through contract farming with smallholder farmers