JAPAN’S Nitori Holdings Company is set to invest 550million US dollars (about 880bn/-) in large scale cotton farming and related industries, in the country.  The Japan investor has secured 40,000 hectares of land for commercial cotton farming in Handeni District where it will open a cotton farm and a processing plant…
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President Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete in official talks with the Prime Minister of Japan Mr Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, May 2013.