Programme
Complete
Flourishing futures
Country
Tanzania
Running from
2017-2023
People reached
10,000
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Support businesses
In Tanzania, growing demand for cooking oil has been met largely by palm oil imports rather than increased sunflower oil production. Low working capital means that oil producers can only buy and process a fraction of farmers’ sunflowers, capping sunflower oil production at a quarter of its potential.
Farm Africa provided technical assistance to actors working across the Tanzanian sunflower sector to meet growing domestic demand for cooking oil. This project worked with agricultural cooperatives and 10,000 of their members to support farmers to establish or develop sunflower businesses.
4,000
farmers received training in good agricultural practices and climate-smart agriculture.
The project encouraged farmers to plant a new hybrid variety of highly productive and drought-tolerant sunflowers. We provided cooperatives with training in organisational management, production, aggregation and sunflower marketing and increased the amount of oil small and medium-sized sunflower processors’ produce.
We supported cooperatives to improve their financial management skills to make them eligible for loans and credit. Also, farmers learned new practices that increased the amount of oil they could extract from seeds, as well as built relationships with hybrid sunflower seed growers.
Greater collaboration between farmers, traders and processors benefit everyone involved in Tanzania’s sunflower industry. By facilitating relationships, contracts and trading arrangements between market actors, Farm Africa created the business environment needed to unleash the sector’s potential.
Country
Tanzania
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Tanzania sunflower market assessment 2022
A report on the state of Tanzania’s sunflower market and recommendations for smallholder farmers to increase their yields.
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Country
Tanzania
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets