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From 200 to 100,000 Farmers — Raha Vegetable Farm’s Unstoppable Rise
The launch of a new modern nursery in Morogoro marks a new chapter for one of Tanzania’s most compelling agribusiness success stories — and a blueprint for inclusive, commercially driven agriculture.
Farmers Served
Regions Reached
Modern Nurseries
Seedling Tray Capacity
Jobs Projected by 2027
Morogoro Municipal Council, 18 March 2026
In 2022, Raha Vegetable Farm began with a simple promise: to put quality vegetable seedlings within reach of smallholder farmers in Tanzania. It started with 200 farmers. Today, that number stands at over 100,000 — spanning 21 regions of mainland Tanzania — and on the morning of 18 March 2026, the farm’s journey entered a powerful new chapter with the official launch of a state-of-the-art seedling nursery at Mkambarani Ward, Morogoro Municipal Council.
Presiding over the launch as guest of honour was Hon. David Silinde (MP), Deputy Minister of Agriculture — a signal of government confidence in youth-led agribusiness as a cornerstone of Tanzania’s agricultural transformation. The Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT), which supported Raha Farm from site identification through to nursery establishment, joined partners and community members to mark the occasion.
“This is what a thriving agribusiness ecosystem looks like in practice — youth-led, commercially driven, and deeply rooted in the communities it serves.”
— AGCOT, on Raha Vegetable Farm’s growth journey
A Nursery Built to Solve a Problem
The Mkambarani nursery is not simply an expansion — it is a strategic response to a logistical challenge. Raha Farm’s previous Dumila site, though productive, created supply chain friction in reaching customers across the Morogoro corridor and beyond. The new facility, with the capacity to hold 1,200 vegetable seedling trays, eliminates those bottlenecks and positions Raha Farm to serve farmers across Morogoro, the entire Coastal Zone — covering Dar es Salaam, Pwani, Lindi, Mtwara, and Ruvuma — and the Southern Highlands with greater speed and consistency.
It is now the eleventh modern nursery under the Raha Vegetable Farm umbrella, with facilities established across Dodoma, Morogoro, Tanga, and Shinyanga regions. Together, this network constitutes one of the most extensive youth-managed horticultural infrastructure footprints in the country.
People at the Centre
Behind the trays, the irrigation lines, and the germination chambers are people. The Mkambarani nursery has already created 10 permanent jobs for youth and 20 initial employment positions for women in the surrounding community. By 2027, Raha Farm projects the wider investment will generate over 2,000 jobs — a figure that reflects not just growth, but the kind of inclusive economic activity that rural and peri-urban Tanzania needs most.
- 10 permanent jobs for youth directly at the nursery
- 20 initial employment opportunities for women in surrounding communities
- 2,000+ jobs projected across the Raha Farm network by 2027
- Farmers served: 100,000+ across 21 regions of mainland Tanzania
- Coverage area: Morogoro, Coastal Zone, Southern Highlands
Aligned with National Priorities
The Mkambarani investment lands squarely within Tanzania’s broader policy direction. Government’s Agenda 10/30 — which targets 10 percent agricultural GDP growth within 30 years — and the Tanzania Agricultural Master Plan 2050 both call for commercially driven, inclusive models of agricultural development. Raha Vegetable Farm is precisely that: a youth-founded enterprise that has scaled through market discipline, strategic partnership, and relentless attention to farmer needs.
Those partnerships have been critical. The Government’s Big Results Now in Agriculture (BBT) Programme provided a foundational enabling environment. AGCOT has walked alongside the farm through technical facilitation and support. Together, these interventions have helped transform a local seedling operation into a national agribusiness force.
“Founded to serve a handful of farmers, Raha Vegetable Farm now reaches over 100,000 — a growth story that belongs not just to the farm, but to Tanzania’s agricultural future.”
— Kilimo Kwanza
What This Means for Tanzanian Horticulture
Access to quality seedlings remains one of the most persistent constraints in Tanzania’s vegetable supply chain. When farmers cannot access certified, healthy seedlings at the right time and in the right quantities, yields suffer, incomes fall, and food security weakens. Raha Vegetable Farm has built its entire model around solving this constraint — at scale, reliably, and with the logistical infrastructure to back it up.
The Mkambarani nursery is a continuation of that mission. It is also proof that when government, development partners, and youth entrepreneurs align around a clear value proposition, the results can be transformative. From 200 farmers in a single location to 100,000 across 21 regions in four years — that is not incremental growth. That is a revolution in the making.
AGCOT — the Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania — is a public-private facilitation platform supporting the development of inclusive agricultural value chains across Tanzania. Kilimo Kwanza is Tanzania’s leading agricultural journalism and policy platform.