Burgeoning of Commercial Ornamental Plant Nurseries in Dar es Salaam City: Challenge and Future Prosperity

Pastory S T,Temu G S,Francis H S

doi:10.34257/gjhssbvol20is1pg17

Abstract

Commercial ornamental nurseries are popping up everywhere in the city of Dar es Salaam. However, as the city urbanizes, the commercial ornamental nurseries are confronted by several challenges of which are inadequately explored and documented. This research examines challenges, problems and explains the future prospects of commercial ornamental nurseries in the city of Dar es Salaam. The study adopted the case study design where the method for data collection relied on in-depth interviews and observation. Results revealed that ornamental plant dealers face several challenges such as; unsecured land tenure, which threaten the prosperity of the commercial ornamentalnursery practices. Problems encountered are those related to plant pests, diseases management and inaccessibility of water for irrigation. On the other hand, commercial ornamental dealers get little support from the responsible city authorities in access land and management of pest and diseases. The study recommends that success of commercial ornamental nursery industry needs more support from different actors and policies together with capacity building among the commercial ornamental dealers.

Highlights

Commercial ornamental nurseries are popping up provide fruit trees which have motivated people in the everywhere in the city of Dar es Salaam
The commercial ornamental nurseries are one of the informal sector activities widely practiced in Tanzanian cities and urban areas including Dar es Salaam City (Liljestrom & Persson, 2014)
In the visited sites for instance, some of the land is owned by institutions while others by individuals. Line with these policy and legal frameworks, the Tanzanian government is taking initiative to formalize informal settlements of urban areas and offering informal business card for people engaging in informal activities

Summary

Introduction

The commercial ornamental nurseries are one of the informal sector activities widely practiced in Tanzanian cities and urban areas including Dar es Salaam City (Liljestrom & Persson, 2014). The findings reveals that despite, land for ornamental nurseries being owned by different institutions, conditions given to the ornamental plant dealers and procedures to access such land are almost the same. The most challenge encountered by the ornamental plant nursery dealers is the lack of security of tenure to support their existence in the site.

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