Tanzania Southern Highlands: Africa’s potato paradise
By Angel Navuri Iringa Region in Southern Highlands of Tanzania can easily provide all the potato needs for East Africa and a large part of Africa, if its full potential…
Meru Agro: How we grew our seed multiplication business
By Anthony Muchoki Meru Agro-Tours & Consultants Co. Ltd (MATC) or simply Meru Agro has become a household name in all breadbaskets of Tanzania in the last 5 year or…
Tanzania: PhD programme generates world-class crop health scientists making a huge impact in assured food security
By Anthony Muchoki What does Dr. Kiddo Mtunda, Dr Tulole Bucheyeki and Dr. Arnold Mushongi have in common? Each one of them today, is a head of leading public owned …
The gains and misses in consolidating EAC bloc’s maize granary
*Tanzania set to become no 1 producer in Africa * East Africa’s most political crop By Anthony Muchoki East African Community (EAC) maize powerhouse, Tanzania has managed to create the…
Tanzania: Phenomenal rural saving society, and a worthy village market
*Model rural village By Anthony Muchoki Tandai Village in Morogoro Rural District is a good case study of a successful rural based farming economy that has led to great transformation…
Tanzania: Innovative farmers’ groups digging a way out of poverty
Once upon a time shadows of hopelessness and helplessness deeply engulfed her life. She felt that financial desolation had done her out of a fulfilling and meaningful life. “For years…
Tanzania: The great comeback of ‘kisamvu,’ ‘ugali’ & cassava biscuits in Zanzibar
*High production records, small scale processors on the rise*The crop back at the top as the most important food crop in Zanzibar*Kizimbani variety runaway success By Anthony Muchoki Enjoying the…
EAC Countries Agriculture Status Scooping Studies 2018 and the Level of Realization of the Malabo Declarations Goals
Introduction Brief on CAADP/Malabo Commitments In 2003, Africa adopted the Comprehensive Africa Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated development framework to boost African Agriculture. With CAADP, the signatory states had…
AGRA and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a new partnership
Dar es Salaam Tanzania, MARCH 11, 2016 – The Alliance for a GreenRevolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a new initiative, theInclusive Green Growth of the Smallholder Agriculture (IGGSAS)Programme in…