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The 6 main cash crops are cashew nuts, coffee, cotton, sisal, tea and tobacco. [5] At one point in its agricultural history, Tanzania was the largest producer of sisal in the world. [6] The agriculture sector faces various challenges and had been the governments top priority to develop to reduce poverty and increase productivity. [7]
The crop was the country's highest foreign exchange earner and was referred to as Tanzania's 'green gold'. [ 8 ] Sisal production in the country peaked in 1964 with around 250,000 tonnes in production from regions from all over the country such as Tanga , Morogoro , Arusha , Mwanza and Shinyanga .
The country has been engaged in the production of the cash crop since before independence in the years 1960s however, poor regulation and lack of reliable payments to farmers have posed significant challenges to the Cashew Nut farming industry in Tanzania. [2]
The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries is a government ministry in Tanzania. Its mission is to "build and support the technical and professional capacity of local government authorities and [the] private sector ... to develop, manage, and regulate the livestock and fisheries resources sustainably." [1]
The most important cash crop in the area is cashew nuts, followed by groundnuts and sesame. Because livestock rearing is not a common practice among the people of the region, its economic contribution is negligible. The cashew nut crop, which accounts for about 25% of the region's GDP, is one of Mtwara's significant contributors.
The exchange is established under a private-public partnership with the Government of Tanzania regulated by the Capital Markets and Securities Authority. The company has an authorized share capital of TSh.50 billion/= and is divided between four investors. The public sector owns 49% of the share capital and the private sector owns 51%.
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All 41 of the Council's wards engage in some form of agriculture. Key cash crops include sorghum, sunflowers, and groundnuts; key food crops include millets, sorghum, maize, beans, etc. Dodoma Municipality's economy is primarily dependent on agriculture, livestock raising, and a few tiny small-scale companies in the District. More than 70% of ...