B. Key Environmental Issues:1
Some of the key environmental issues related to agricultural production include the following:
- Poor agricultural techniques (failure to conserve soil and water) such as cultivation in marginal and sensitive
areas like hillsides, hilltops, river banks, road sides, deserts, wetlands, etc.
- Large-scale farming, currently state farms but being sold of in part and as a whole, employing irrigation,
fertilization and fumigation techniques which are environmentally unfriendly.
- Small-scale farms which overuse pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers.
- Livestock ranching impacts on land fertility from over-stocking
- Urban agriculture with improper disposal of animal wastes, over-grazing of public areas, etc.
Relevant Institutions, Environmental Laws and Subsidiary Legislation
Institutions:
- National Land Use Planning Commission
- Local Governments
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Water, Energy and Minerals
- Tropical Pesticides Research Institute
- Director of Public Prosecutions
- Ministry of Lands
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority
Laws and Subsidiary Legislation Related to Environment:
- Local Government (District Authorities) Act
- Tropical Pesticides Research Institute Act
- Town and Country Planning Ordinance
- National Land Use Planning Commission Act
- Water Laws
- Penal Code
- Range Development Management Act
- Cattle Grazing Ordinance
- Grass Fires Control Ordinance
- Land Ordinance
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area Ordinance
Possible Licenses and Permits Required:
- A Planning Consent (in declared land use planning areas)
- Application of Pesticides: Fumigation License from Tropical Pesticides Research Institute
- Water Forms
- Application for Water Right
- Provisional or Final Water Right
- Application for an Easement
- Certificate of the Creation of an Easement
- Local Government permits and licenses for agricultural uses of restricted, reserved or prohibited areas, urban
agriculture or livestock, etc.
- Grazing permits in declared areas under Cattle Grazing Ordinance
- Permits, certificates of residency, etc., for Rangeland Development Areas declared under Range Development
Management Ordinance
- Permits for residence, cultivation or livestock keeping in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
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