National Agriculture Policy

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 some time to come, it justifies the argument that any attempts to improve living standards of the people must give particular attention to increased production and productivity in the agricultural sector.

The National Agriculture Policy 2013 (NAP 2013) revolves around the goals of developing an efficient, competitive and profitable agricultural industry that contributes to the improvement of the livelihoods of Tanzanians and attainment of broad based economic growth and poverty alleviation. The Government is committed to bring about a green revolution that entails transformation of agriculture from subsistence farming towards commercialization and modernization through crop intensification, diversification, technological advancement and infrastructural development.

In this endeavour, the government recognizes the paramount importance of the private sector as the engine of growth and thus the business environment shall be improved in order to catalyse the participation of private sector in agricultural development. Further reforms are also required in order to spearhead the already existing policy reforms in the agricultural sector that envisage greater involvement of private sector in agricultural production, processing, marketing and the provision of support services.