Browsing: Agribusiness sector in Tanzania

• Tanzania is seeking a slice of the global vanilla beans market that is set to reach $2.11 billion this year.
• The East African country is ranked the 27th largest exporter of Vanilla in the world. 
• An enormous trend toward convenience foods driven primarily by urbanization is driving vanilla market globally.

Tanzania vanilla farming value chain is aligning itself to tap into growing consumer preferences as people move to experiment with novel food products to satisfy their taste buds.

The global food industry is producing new food products with functional and nutritional features, and Tanzania’s vanilla value chain intends to meet the rising demand from consumers and producers.

Value of vanilla in global market

What’s your favorite ice cream flavour? Whether it is ice cream, yogurt, milk, cake, or brownies, vanilla is one of the most common and favorite flavours. Did you know that vanilla flavour is extracted from a black-coloured …

• Tanzania, a country with a total area of 947,300 km², is home to Africa’s second-largest cattle herd.
• Meat exports constitute about 7.1 percent of the East African country’s GDP.
• With eyes on higher revenues, Tanzania aims to produce 10,000 tonnes of meat annually by 2025.

With a big herd and stakes high in the international food markets, Tanzania has set her eyes on ambitious plan of shipping 10,000 tonnes of meat exports annually by 2025. Whereas Tanzania is home to Africa’s second-largest cattle herd, the country has been punching below its weight.

Currently, Tanzania is not one of the top meat and milk producers in the continent. The country’s situation syncs with FAO’s observation that there is no correlation between the size of cattle herds a country owns to its beef exports.

Relation between cattle herds and meat exports

In terms of the size of livestock in Africa, the Food …

• Tanzania President Samia is commended for rebuilding investor confidence
• Tanzania now enjoying improved regional relations with EAC members
• President Samia pushes to fast track Tanzania’s national development projects

From pushing Covid-19 vaccination campaigns to rebuilding investor confidence, Tanzania’s first female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan is making headlines as an economic focused president with a vision of prosperity.

If the recent visit by the African Development Bank Group (AFDB) President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina is anything to go by, President Samia is positioning Tanzania to achieve its socio-economic development vision.

Ahead of her State tour to France and Belgium where she among other things attended the One Ocean Summit on global action against pollution of marine life, President Samia hosted the President of the African Development Bank Group, the lead African funding instrument.

The visit by AFDB President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina was very symbolic and it among other things …