Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete will mid this month officially open a major regional agriculture conference.

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Animal diseases have wide ranging impacts on both animals and people, from decimating livestock and wildlife to threatening public health, compromising food safety, food security and crippling livelihoods.

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Authorities in Ngara District have imposed a quarantine following an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the region.

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The Robana river flows through the Serengeti region before flowing into Lake Victoria.

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received follow-up report no. 4 yesterday, 16 January.

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Pugu livestock market in Dar es Salaam has experienced a good supply of cattle but the price of meat has continued to go up. A report issued by the Ministry of Trade and Industry indicates that there has been a high demand for cattle, goats and sheep.

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AgriSol Energy, a US firm and a Tanzanian partner, will invest more than $100 million over the next 10 years to develop a large-scale commercial crop and poultry farming project in the east African country, according to the Aug. 19 edition of the National Chicken Council’s Washington Report.

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US firm, AgriSol Energy and a Tanzanian partner will invest more than $100 million over the next 10 years to develop a large-scale commercial farming project in the east African country.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting a women's farm cooperative in Tanzania Sunday, announced $70 million in U.S. agricultural aid.

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The Tanzanian veterinary authorities have reported another outbreak of African swine fever in the Mbeya region.

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Over 1,600 traditional poultry farmers in Singida and Iramba districts, have been trained on better rearing techniques aimed at transforming the indigenous poultry sector from a conventional subsistence activity into a commercial business.

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More than 1,600 traditional poultry farmers in the districts of Singida and Iramba districts have been trained on better rearing techniques aimed at transforming the indigenous poultry sector from a conventional subsistence activity into a commercial business.

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The Livestock Data Innovation in Africa project is a three-year (2010–2012) project that works with national governments and institutes to pilot and develop methodologies to identify, collect and analyze livestock data in three pilot countries: Niger, Tanzania and Uganda.

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A survey by the Daily News established that Kurasini and Keko areas have been seriously hit by the disease forcing local authorities to impose a quarantine in a bid to contain the situation.

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JOEL Lubuva (59) considers himself among the richest men in Dodoma Region. This is simply because he keeps 90 heads of cattle, 75 goats and 57 sheep in his farm located not very far from Kongwa town.

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Four additional outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) have been reported in the Mbyea region, in the South Western part of Tanzania, near the borders with Malawi and Uganda.

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Rufiji farmers have hailed the outcome of a research on poultry keeping, saying it has transformed their lives. The research has been organised by a Research Into Use programme (RIU) funded by the UK through the Department for International Development.

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)received an immediate notification yesterday, 8 December.

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A deadly viral disease, which broke out in Tanzania earlier this year, could spread south, posing a mortal threat to more than 50 million sheep and goats in 15 countries.The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) issued the warning following an emergency mission to Tanzania by the agency’s animal health crisis management centre.According to Dr Dewald Keet, acting director of animal health for the agriculture department, ovine rinderpest, also known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR), is a contagious disease known to affect goats and sheep in parts of west, central and east Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.

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The cattle supply to Pugu market in Dar es Salaam from upcountry has decreased by 5.5 per cent. But meat prices have remained at between Sh3,000 and Sh4,800 a kilo. A ministry of Trade, Industry and Marketing report shows that 970 animals on the average were received a day at the Pugu terminal market last week, fewer than 1,011 the previous week.

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line with the country’s clarion call Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First), Tanzania’s Minister for Finance Mustafa Mkulo waived value added tax (VAT) on farm implements to improve and increase production. Agriculture was allocated Tsh903.8 billion ($6.5 million, 7.78 per cent of total revenues and expenditure) compared with the ministry’s cut in 2009 of Tsh666 billion ($476 million) or 7 per cent of the then Tsh9.5 trillion ($) budget.

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MAJOR agriculture projects to be executed in the southern highland regions, the country main food basket, are underway. President Jakaya Kikwete said in Dar es Salaam that the government and the private sector are on the drawing board for the ambitious projects whose costs are yet to be known. Mr Kikwete who was addressing local and foreign media attending the 20th edition of World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa Conference which begun today, said the corridor which runs between Rukwa region through Mbeya, Iringa, Ruvuma and Morogoro has huge potential to feed the country if necessary investment was made.

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Local and foreign researchers convened in Dar es Salaam last week to deliberate on Kilimo Kwanza initiative and, by the end of the two-day conference, they were convinced that the domination of agricultural sector by small scale farmers was a serious problem. Small-scale farmers, they argued, lack capital, skills and can only manage to cultivate for subsistence, not commercial farming that the country needs to prosper.

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In order for Africa to be liberated from hunger and unemployment among its youths, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) yesterday advised the continent to embrace modern method of farming. Director-General of UNIDO Dr. Kandeh Yumkella said this at the High Level Conference on Development of Agribusiness and Agro-industries in Africa which ended in Abuja yesterday. According to him, we are doing Agribusiness the same way our ancestors were doing it 2000 years ago, this 21st century for us to meet up with the current situation there is need for us to embrace modern method of farming as to address unemployment problem in the Africa continent.

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The implementation of much touted Kilimo Kwanza drive seems to be headed to a dead end as most Tanzanians have not grasped the campaign. A recent opinion poll has indicated that only 35 per cent of Tanzanians understand the Kilimo Kwanza initiative.

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Tanzania has secured $2.3 million from the Swiss Government to finance smallholder rice farming in the central corridor

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AS a taxi driver, Christopher Mwita never overlooked anything on the way when he transported his passengers to their various destinations

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Iranian and Tanzanian officials endorsed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on economic cooperation in the fields of fishery, cement production and processing industry

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Kondoa District Council in Dodoma region has purchased 50 miniature tractors commonly known as 'Power Tillers" for farming in the 2009/2010 season.

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New abattoir goes ahead with Arab money - Construction of the long awaited Tsh10 billion ($9.5 million) National Ranches Company abattoir at Ruvu in Coast Region has finally begun. The abattoir, with the capacity to slaughter 800 cows and bulls and 400 goats daily, is scheduled for completion in 2011.

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Smallholder cocoa farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania have adopted an ambitious programme that is expected to raise incomes by 60 per cent, through improved farming techniques. The programme, commonly known

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Construction of the long awaited Tsh10 billion ($9.5 million) National Ranches Company abattoir at Ruvu in Coast Region has finally begun

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Tanzania is reportedly preparing to ask CITES to lift the trade ban on elephant ivory, much to the dismay of its EAC neighbors, conservationists, and members of the tourism industry. In a move that would surely undermine East African conservation efforts, Tanzania has taken up the position that a sanctioned sale of elephant ivory would provide much-needed financial support to the country’s anti-poaching measures. This comes as a shock to the East African Community (EAC), considering that last year’s sanctioning of a one-off ivory auction is to blame for igniting a scourge of rampant elephant killings throughout Africa - particularly Kenya.

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The Government has ordered 2000 squatters out of land meant for large-scale paddy farming in Kilombero district, Morogoro region.

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Four months before the East African Common Market comes into force, Tanzanian manufacturers have said they are prepared to face the competition provided there are fair rules. They said the past five years had groomed them well and they were now ready and able to face competition from Kenya, Uganda

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The East African Community Secretariat and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), an international research institute with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya have signed and exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that aims to establish a long-term relationship for purposes of exploiting their complementarities in research knowledge generation and its application to further their respective missions. The MoU, signed by the Secretary General of the East African Community, Ambassador Juma Volter Mwapachu on behalf of the East African Community, and Mr. Carlos Sere, the Regional Representative, on behalf of the International Livestock Research Institute, spells out clearly areas of cooperation between the EAC Secretariat and ILRI

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Sixty seven more animals were supplied daily on the average to Dar es Salaam last week. But meat prices remained at between Sh3,600 and Sh3,800 a kilo in the last four weeks. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Marketing reported that 697 head of cattle on the average were supplied daily to the Pugu market last week compared with 670 the previous week. The

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