Partnerships with Companies Creating Structured Marketing Opportunities for Farmers

TLDR

• Experiences shared by farmers from Lukinga Village in Gairo District during August 2025 illustrate how these partnerships are reshaping potato production.
• For more than four decades, Tanzania and the Netherlands have collaborated in agriculture, creating a partnership that now includes more than 100 companies and organisations sharing knowledge, research, innovation.
• Mr Milambwe says these innovations are serving millions of vegetable farmers, with East West Seed Tanzania providing quality vegetable seed and good agronomic practices to at least two million farmers nationwide.
• Partnerships with companies such as Mapinga Premium Foods have created more structured marketing opportunities, encouraging farmers to invest confidently in quality seed and improved farming practices because they have.
• For many farmers, these changes represent a significant departure from years of struggling with limited access to certified seed, inadequate farming skills, weak producer organisations and uncertain markets.