Farmers struggle with single AMTA scale at Kahenge

NAMPA

2025-10-16

KAHENGE, 07 October 2025 - AMTA has only one scale available for farmers at the Kahenge Trading Post. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

KAHENGE,16 OCT (NAMPA) – Farmers in the Tondoro Constituency are facing severe challenges in selling their mahangu harvest due to inadequate infrastructure and poor coordination at the Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) offices in Kahenge.
Paulinus Hamatwi, village headman of Mukekete, recently told Nampa the trading process has become frustrating as there is only one scale to serve hundreds of farmers from across the region.
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KAHENGE, 07 October 2025 - Farmers struggle with AMTA's single scale at Kahenge Trading Post. (Photo by: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

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