Rice is the fastest growing food source in Africa. Demand for rice has been growing at a rate of about 4.6% per annum between 2000 and 2010 – faster than anywhere else in the World and far outstripping the sub-region’s population…
The importance of agricultural sector in the national economy cannot be overemphasised owing to its relationship between its performance and that of key economic indicators like GDP and employment. Since this relationship is there to stay for…
Meeting Tanzania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015, will require annual GDP growth of at least 6-7 percent which is significantly higher than that achieved over the last decade. As…
In August 2001, The Government of Tanzania (GoT) approved the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) which envisages an agricultural sector that, by 2025, is modernized, commercial, highly productive and profitable, and utilizes natural…
The Agricultural sector in Tanzania, like the rest of the economy, is in transition from being a command to a market-based production system. The transition process started in the mid 1980s with the implementation of a structural adjustment…