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 Agriculture has been destroyed by both internal and external factors. However, revival of the sector can provide European companies with a number of primary products desirable by their citizens and the world over. This is essentially coffee, cotton, tea, cashew nuts, cocoa, vanilla. These products account for about 48 percent of Tanzania's GDP, provide 65 percent of total export earnings and are by far the largest employer.
Tremendous
investment opportunities are available in production, processing,
marketing and services provision in the crop sub sector as
follows:
- Coffee
- Opening up new large-scale coffee estates in Ruvuma,
Mbeya, Iringa, Kagera, Kigoma and Arusha regions.
- Establishment of coffee processing plants
- Cotton
Tanzania’s
cotton is of medium staple length range: ranging from 28.2mm to
28.7mm for type II and 26.7mm for type III.
Investment opportunities in the cotton Industry include:
·
Establishment of large-scale cotton production
farms, particularly in Morogoro, Coast, Singida, Tanga and Iringa
regions.
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Establishing textile and spinning industries
- Tobacco
- Establishing large scale woodlots for tobacco curing
in Mbeya, Singida, Shinyanga, Rukwa, and Tabora regions.
- Purchase of tobacco and construction of processing
factories
- Establishment of large-scale sisal plantations in
Dodoma, Shinyanga, Singida, Kigoma, Biharamulo(Kagera), Tanga,
Coast and Morogoro regions.
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Investment in new plantation and joint venture in
the privatized sisal estates
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Currently only 4% of the sisal plant is utilized for
fibre and twine production. Investment
opportunities are available in sisal spinning and weaving,
production of alcohol,
particle boards, biogas and electricity, citric acid,
pharmaceuticals, animal feeds, organic fertilizer, handicrafts
(Various items like Bags, Dart Boards, Rugs, Doormats, Tablemats,
Curtains), Sisal Mattresses and Padding for furniture and car
seats, Sisal polishing metal cloth Buffing Cloth is a preferred
material for polishing metals in industrial settings, Sisal
Composites in Automotive, Boats, Furniture and in all areas to
replace Fibre Glass and in establishment of pulp factories
- Spices
- Establishment of spices production, processing and
marketing infrastructure in the coastal and high altitude
areas of Tanga, Coast, Mtwara, Lindi, Morogoro, Mbeya,
Kilimanjaro, Kagera and Kigoma regions.
- Establishment of spice processing and marketing
infrastructure.
- Tea
- Establishment of large-scale tea production through opening
up new plantations in Mbeya, Iringa, Kagera, Mara and Tanga regions
Establishment of tea processing factories
- Establishment of tea processing factories
- Pyrethrum
- Establishment of contract and large scale farming of pyrethrum in
high altitude regions of Iringa, Mbeya, Arusha and Kilimanjaro
- Establishment of Pyrethrum crude extracts refineries.
- Cashew nut production and processing
- Currently 90 percent of cashew nuts crop is exported as raw cashew and therefore there are good opportunities to establish cashew-processing industries.
- Investment in large scale cashew production
- Investment in cashew marketing
- Sugarcane production
- Tanzania’s current level of sugar self sufficiency is about 75 percent. There are good opportunities in establishment of new sugarcane estates in Coast, Ruvuma, Kagera, Mara, Mbeya, Kilimanjaro and Kigoma regions and in sugarcane processing factories.
- Floriculture
- Open flower farms in Tanga- Usambara, Iringa, Mbeya, Kagera, Arusha Kilimanjaro and Morogoro regions
- Invest in Lowland flower farming in Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi regions.
- Flower seed production in Arusha, Mbeya,Iringa and Kilimanjaro
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