Other buildings include staff canteen, and general and nursery stores. Staff includes a Head of Centre in charge of overall centre activities, a Seed Officer in charge of all operations in the centre, a Field Officer, five fully trained tree climbers, ten forest attendants to carry out seed processing and nursery work, and a number of support staff. The National and the Zonal Seed Centres are equipped with modern machinery for carrying out the planned activities within seed procurement, seed research and development, applied tree improvement, and training and extension. Each zonal centre is operating two 4WD pick-ups, lorry and a motorcycles are provided to selected project staff on soft loan conditions. The National Centre is operating a number of vehicles.
All centres have bicycles for local transport.
An extensive consultancy programme gives NTSP the necessary impetus for improving techniques and management, and assures that project activities are carried out in accordance with the latest knowledge within the field of seed procurement. For further information, please contact the project or even better, visit us at one of our locations in Iringa, Lushoto and Morogoro. We shall be pleased to receive you and to discuss with you matters of seed procurement. It is the aim of NTSP to try and keep all major seed consumers in Tanzania informed about the development of the programme.