Private companies and farmers’ groups have recently been invited to join the Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) in order to access the center’s financing and technological skills and to take advantage of the experience of the current SAGCOT members.

Regulators of the Tanzania cotton sector have reportedly indicated that, contrary to earlier predictions, the industry is expected to survive the “second wave” of the global economic crisis, which hit Tanzania at the end of 2009.

100,000 hectares of land in Tanzania’s Rufiji valley are to be developed by South Korean corporation KRC as part of an ongoing large-scale farming initiative in developing countries.

During a recent interview with the Chinese newspaper, Xinhua, the Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Stephen Masatu Wasira, announced that the country is not only currently welcoming Chinese investment, but is also anticipating additional investment by the Chinese in the Tanzania agriculture sector.