Corporate Structure in Agriculture and Socialist Development in Tanzania

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Title:	Corporate Structure in Agriculture and Socialist Development in Tanzania
Author:	Packard, P.C.
Year:	1972
Periodical:	East African Journal of Rural Development
Volume:	5
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	163-182
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	socialism agrarian reform ujamaa Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Development and Technology Politics and Government
Abstract:	This paper is concerned with a principal problem confronting any socialist country: how to control the public sector in such a way that national objectives are realized. The article describes the problems of one parastatal organisation: The National Agricultural and Food Corporation (NAFCO), which controls 13 subsidiary corporations. The problem is that NAFCO exercises no meaningful control over management in the sence of translating government policy into programmes of action for the enterprise, nor evaluates whether government policy has been carried out effectively. Clear statements of objectives by the government would allow NAFCO to function as was intended: to develop programmes for action to implement government policy. The ideology of socialism must be made sufficiently concrete that individuals whithin the planning system can understand socialism at their planning level and carry out tasks which achieve both specific and overall objectives. Ref., notes, table.