Introduction

Since 1985, the country’s overall agricultural GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 3.3 percent while the country’s main food crops have been growing at 3.5 percent annually and its export crops at 5.4 percent annually.

Today, approximately 80 percent of Tanzanians are employed by the agriculture sector plays, which accounts for half of the national income and three quarters of the merchandise exports in the country.

The majority staples that are produced by Tanzania include maize, sorghum, millet, rice, wheat, pulses (mainly beans), cassava, potatoes, bananas and plantains with the bulk of the country’s export crops being composed of coffee, cotton, cashew nut, tobacco, sisal, pyrethrum, tea, cloves, horticultural crops, oil seeds, spices and flowers. 

 Shamba Langu is the Agricultural blog, aimed at impacting knowledge to small and medium farmers in Tanzania, the main goal is to add quality and maximizing productivity.