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  • Tabora area leader Batilda Burian has invited investors to seize investment options in Tabora irrigation schemes
  • The call follows Tanzania move to launches pilot block farming projects dubbed Samia Block Farms.
  • Irrigation remains the key to commercializing agriculture in rural Tanzania.

Agriculture contributes nearly one-third of Tanzania’s GDP and employs 75 percent of the population, making it a pillar in addressing the country’s food security.

While Tanzania enjoys a tropical climate with two rainy seasons, rain-fed farming is limiting the country’s agricultural potential as unpredictable weather patterns due to climate change intensify. To achieve its national goal of commercializing and mechanizing the agriculture sector to fix food security needs, Tanzania has little choice but to adopt irrigation for year-round farming activities.

For this purpose, Tanzania has set up the National Irrigation Commission, a unit that is charged with facilitating and promoting irrigation in the country. According to the Director of …