Speaking to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week, Mr Matthew Kombe, Director General of Tanzania’s Sugar Board said the country will produce 290,000 tonnes of sugar compared with 279, 851 tonnes in 2008/09. (…) "The forecasts are that we will produce about 290,000 tonnes of sugar which is comparable to what we produced last year due to weather patterns which have remained the same," said Mr Kombe. He added that the increasing in acreage under sugarcane and the boost in (…)