African Agriculture and Food Systems
For decades, agricultural extension in Tanzania has been distributed across district councils, commodity boards, NGOs and private providers. NAESA pulls them together. The launch happens at the start…
For decades, Tanzanian farmers applied fertilizer largely on instinct and inheritance. The Hotuba describes a quiet shift: soil intelligence is becoming infrastructure. Most farmers do not know what…
The Irish potato is East Africa’s third most important food crop, after maize and bananas. Yet smallholder yields stagnate at 7–10 tonnes per hectare against an attainable 30–40…
Tanzania’s digital input subsidy system — built on the e-Kilimo platform and integrated with ten government databases — is the architecture that moved input subsidies from administrative aspiration…
From 30,167 tons to 54,750 tons of improved seed produced inside Tanzania. From 44,581 tons to 79,214 tons of improved seed available to farmers. Behind the numbers sits…
Five years ago, Tanzania produced 32,239 tons of fertilizer locally. In 2025/2026, it produced 123,203 tons. The country is still a net importer, but the trajectory of import…
201,354 tons of avocado produced. 37,871 tons exported, 94.7% of target. 8 collection centres at 20% completion in Mbeya. 12 contracted across 4 regions. 349,000 seedlings distributed. Tanzania’s…
How Local Entrepreneurs Are Transforming Tanzania’s Cocoa Value Chain Through Homegrown Chocolate Brands Dar es Salaam — While Tanzania has long been recognized as a producer of fine-flavour cocoa beans,…
Fruits 8.05 million tons. Vegetables 1.63 million tons. Spices 95,458 tons. Total horticulture production at 108.68% of plan, with 33.9% growth over five years. The horticultural sector has…
Coffee at 88% of target, sugar at 59%, tobacco at 93%. Three crops with similar histories, very different current trajectories — and three distinct policy responses in the…
617,684 tons of raw cashew produced in 2025/26. The target was 700,000. Most cashew belts are within striking distance of full delivery. Behind the numbers: 100 shelling machines…
222,014 tons of cotton produced in 2025/26. The target was 400,000. The gap is real — and the recovery plan is concrete: a Simiyu kongani, ginnery revivals at…
After two decades of decline, the cooperative movement is back at the centre of Tanzania’s agricultural story — with 3.36 million members, integrated digital infrastructure, and a fresh…
Without certified seeds, accredited plant-health testing, validated tissue culture and reliable soil analysis, none of the headline targets in the Hotuba are reachable. The FY 2026/27 budget builds…
Subsidies, soil scans, cooperative records, market prices, lab results, weather data, identity verification, payment processing — all of it now flows through one integrated platform. The FY 2026/27…
From Kasumulu to Tunduma to Sirari, Tanzania’s agricultural exports cross at a handful of land borders that have, until recently, been operating well below capacity. The FY 2026/27…
The award-winning tree-to-bar brand expands international distribution, proving Tanzanian agricultural products can compete—and win—on global premium markets Kilimokwanza Special Report | May 1, 2026 In the rolling terraces…
Beyond the FY 2026/2027 numbers, the Hotuba sets out the destination Tanzania’s agriculture sector is meant to reach by 2030. Six targets stand out. Together they describe a…
Five years into President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration, Tanzania’s agriculture sector tells a story almost entirely in numbers — and the numbers are unusually clean. This is the…
The fourteen-year experiment that mobilised $6.34 billion and reached a million farmers is now the template for nationwide commercialisation Kilimokwanza Special Report When President Samia Suluhu Hassan stood…
The FY 2026/2027 ask of Tsh 1.106 trillion is slightly smaller than this year’s. Read closely, the shape of the spending tells a sharper story: Tanzania is building,…
352 youth trained in sisal value addition — 305 of them women. 100 cashew-shelling machines for 2,800 youth and women in the cashew belt. Tanzania’s value-addition agenda is…
For 25 years, Kaizirege Camara has kept bees and built a business around the hive. Today he exports Tanzanian honey, rice, flour, and beans to Britain — and…
1,250 sets of pumps, generators and pipes are being distributed to smallholder farmers in seven regions. 250 are deployed; 1,000 more are queued. When fully distributed, the kits…