Tanzania Agriculture Overview
Tanzania: overview
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TANZANIA
Country area: 947,303 sq. km
Cropland approx.: 44.62% of land area
Cropland under cultivation: 24%
Population: 61,741,120
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
together make up to 26.6% of GDP
FIAT
PANIS
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Hand-in-Hand
Initiative
Climate: tropical climate with hot humid coastal plain;
semi-arid central plateau; high rainfall lake regions; and
temperate highland areas.
Natural resources: rivers, lakes, ocean,
forests/woodlands, wildlife, minerals including natural
gas.
>70% of population living in rural areas with direct
access to arable land for agricultural production.
Most practice subsistence farming with transition
potential to commercial farming.
In almost all regions there are poverty incidences; with
potentially unexploited areas for agriculture.
After plateauing between 2001 and 2007, in 2018 the poverty
rate fell from 34.4 to 26.4 percent.View entire presentation