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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]
Minister for Agriculture Portrait Name Term of office President Charles Tizeba: October 2017: 10 November 2018: John Magufuli: Japhet Hasunga: 10 November 2018 [2]: 16 June 2020
Sisal is the oldest commercial cash crop still in survival in Tanzania. In 1893 visionary German Agronomist Dr. Richard Hindorf introduced the crop into the colony. [4] The plant Agave sisalana was smuggled into Tanganyika from Yucatán, Mexico in the belly of a stuffed crocodile. [5]
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]
Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Portrait Name Term of office Party President Mwigulu Nchemba: December 2015 June 2016 Chama Cha Mapinduzi: John Magufuli: Charles Tizeba: 12 June 2016 October 2017 Chama Cha Mapinduzi: Ministry split into Minisitry of Agriculture and Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
Deliver quality agriculture and cooperative services. Provide conducive environments to stake holders. Build the capacity of local government authorities in order to facilitate and facilitate the private sector to contribute effectively for sustainable agricultural production and cooperative development.
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.
In the entire region, cotton is the most common cash crop, accounting for 5,521,511 ha annually, compared to 131,547 ha for maize, 75,940 ha for cassava, and 18,921 ha for paddy. During the same period from 2010/11 to 2014/15, 56,906 tonnes of cotton are typically produced in the area each year, accounting for 47.5 per cent of the region's ...