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.

The Citizen Daily has recently reported that Tanzania agriculture experts are now saying that improvement in the quality of seeds will be critical to the success of the national agricultural revolution strategy, Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First), as increased agricultural production is not possible without the use of quality seeds.

According to a recent report by the Citizen, Dr. Ali Mohammed Shein, Vice President of Tanzania, spoke to reporters during the Nane Nane Exhibitions at the Nzuguni grounds about the government’s promise to continue designating funding from the budget to the development of the Tanzania agriculture program in order to ensure the success of the National Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP).

A recent story by The Citizen has indicated that the official launch of Tanzania’s ‘Kilimo Kwanza,’ (Agriculture First) program took place during an event celebrating Farmer’s Day, which took place in the Dodoma Region at the Nzuguni grounds.