Jump to full article: IPP Media (tz), 2006-10-08
Author: Peter Msungu and Lucas Ndanga
Intro: There are two schools of thought in the minds of people regarding the way they perceive about the growth or development of Tabora region as a whole.
There are those who perceive that the region is heading towards patial collapse or dying, due to extensive shifting cultivation of tobacco. These people have reasons for believing the region is dying a natural death.
They mostly bank on assumptions that the region lacks industries, both light and heavy ones, poor infrastructure, specifically roads and dependence on only one commercial crop-tobacco, which again, is the biggest threat to the environment.
Tobacco cultivation has left many areas naked and barren because trees have been cut like nobody's busisness. The trees are cut for tobacco curing, firewood and charcoal.
The environment in many of these tobacco growing areas where massive tree cutting has taken place, have been eroded to an extent that they appear as if they were deserts.
Tobacco farmers keep shifting and thus causing more damage
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