particular period have not touched majority who are rural dwellers with their main economic activity being agricultural. Therefore, for the economic growth to have impact in economic development, agricultural development should be the priority. Enormous studies indicate that policies and strategies put in place for horticultural development have been well designed in part/theoretically but few have been done in practical. They showed most of the problems facing fruits and vegetable producers but not came up with practical solution on the revealed problems under horticultural development. Unreliable Market, lack of fruits and vegetable processing industries, unsatisfactory capital to run horticultural products processing and un clear Political willingness in horticultural development has seen to be acute impediments to horticultural processing industry. Some of the solutions and efforts made by DADPS and TASAF to develop horticultural in Makete district have mainly being in theoretical because it touches little on post-harvest precaution to farmers. At large efforts concentrated on just selling fresh product abstaining processing strategies which has resulted into demoralized to most of fruits producers as the saw most of their fruits to rote. Effective community participation into various solutions to the problems pertaining at their areas has not been fully applied. Most of the participatory approach applied have been consultative approach in which target group is just been involved at implementation stage. The need for problems solving emerged and rooted from the community in question by coming up with practical solution can help the community to attain the desired development. This mainly results from the Community Needs Assessment (CNA) which is the case of this study. This study therefore intends to
particular period have not touched majority who are rural dwellers with their main economic activity being agricultural. Therefore, for the economic growth to have impact in economic development, agricultural development should be the priority. Enormous studies indicate that policies and strategies put in place for horticultural development have been well designed in part/theoretically but few have been done in practical. They showed most of the problems facing fruits and vegetable producers but not came up with practical solution on the revealed problems under horticultural development. Unreliable Market, lack of fruits and vegetable processing industries, unsatisfactory capital to run horticultural products processing and un clear Political willingness in horticultural development has seen to be acute impediments to horticultural processing industry. Some of the solutions and efforts made by DADPS and TASAF to develop horticultural in Makete district have mainly being in theoretical because it touches little on post-harvest precaution to farmers. At large efforts concentrated on just selling fresh product abstaining processing strategies which has resulted into demoralized to most of fruits producers as the saw most of their fruits to rote. Effective community participation into various solutions to the problems pertaining at their areas has not been fully applied. Most of the participatory approach applied have been consultative approach in which target group is just been involved at implementation stage. The need for problems solving emerged and rooted from the community in question by coming up with practical solution can help the community to attain the desired development. This mainly results from the Community Needs Assessment (CNA) which is the case of this study. This study therefore intends to
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