Tanzania
Horticulture has quietly become Tanzania’s biggest agricultural export earner, bringing in around 569 million US dollars in 2024, ahead of tobacco and cashew, and aiming at two billion by 2030. The bottleneck now is not growing the crop. It is getting it to a...
Tanzania
No Tanzanian smallholder walks past subsidised urea. When a bag that cost around 131,000 shillings comes down closer to 70,000, that is what most farmers buy, and arguing otherwise wastes everyone’s time. The useful question is why a bag that should transform a...
Tanzania
An importer evaluating a new fertilizer supplier is not really assessing the fertilizer. They are assessing whether it can be registered, whether it arrives on time, whether the documentation survives inspection, and whether they can move it once it lands. The...
Tanzania
Tanzania is planting avocado at a pace few countries have attempted. More than 1.7 million subsidised seedlings are being distributed, thousands of farmers and hundreds of extension officers are being trained, and collection centres are going up across the producing...
Tanzania
Walk a cashew farm in Mtwara or Lindi at flowering and you will see thousands of flowers on a single tree. Come back at harvest and count the nuts. The gap between those two numbers is where most of Tanzania’s cashew income disappears. Cashew is Tanzania’s...
