Tanzania has reported a rise of 10,415 tonnes of meat exports worth US$42.5 million in 2021/2022, according to the country’s Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development. According to David Sindile, the Tanzanian Deputy Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Development, the export figures had listed a 492% rise compared to the corresponding period in 2020/2021 where […]
Ramani Plans Big For African Businesses, Raises US$32m To Digitise CPG Supply Chains
Ramani, a Tanzania based consumer-packaged goods (CPG) supply chain software developer, has raised US$32m in series A funding round, comprising of equity and debt, to scale its operations. Founded in 2019, the tech company is focused on fixing fragmented consumer goods supply chains that traditionally suffer from lack of data visibility and are burdened by […]
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! UN Launches Tanzanian Women Into Agriculture With US$5million
The quadruple body – the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as well as the UN Women, have launched US$5 million project to encourage Tanzanian women in agriculture. The five-year programme tagged: “Accelerating Progress Towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment […]
Tanzania To Build Two Avocado Processing Plants To Curb Post-Harvest Loss
The government of Tanzania seeks to channel Tsh 3 billion (US$1.29m) in the construction of two avocado processing plants to curb post-harvest loss and increase export earnings. The processing facility set to be established in the Iringa region in the south of the country is expected to have a processing capacity of 3,600 tonnes of […]
Tanzania Grain Board To Spend US$8.7 M On Construction Of Processing And Milling Plants
Tanzania’s Cereals and Other Products Board (CPB) is set to invest US$ 8.7 million to construct three new maize flour and paddy processing and milling plants with the aim of strengthening its competitiveness and exploring the emerging trade opportunities in the East Africa region. The first facility is a maize-cassava composite flour processing plant to […]
Kenya Wants Greater Share Of Zambia, Tanzania And Uganda Maize Exports
Kenya is seeking to limit Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda from exporting maize to other countries at its expense in fresh efforts to curb the surge in maize flour prices and ease the pinch of inflation. Kenya traditionally receives imports from Uganda and Tanzania, but trade flows in the grain have shifted to other countries, with […]
Malting Plant In Moshi To Resume Operations In 2023
Tanzania Maltings Company Limited (TMCL) is planning to resume operations in Moshi, Kilimanjaro, in 2023 after pausing six years. The plant was many years in operations before it closed in 2017 due to a lack of sufficient local barley grown in the area. High water usage and electricity costs as well as outdated technology consuming […]
Tanzania Entrepreneur Turns Sweet Potatoes Into Competitive Food Brand
Who says, Africa is incapable of feeding herself? Today, our spotlight is on the founder of Sanavita, Jolenta Joseph as she explains how she spotted a gap in Tanzania and gifted the market some nutritious foods. While studying for a BSc in human nutrition at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Jolenta also burnt the midnight candle, […]
3 African ‘Beverapreneurs’ That Have Always Been There
Take it to the bank that the African continent has got a population headed to 1.5billion people. Excitingly, as people mill around so also are our entrepreneurs. With the growing number of confident, entrepreneurial mavericks who see Africa’s much storied ‘problems’ as opportunities, these African beverage makers or what we choose to call ‘”beverapreneurs” are […]