Dutch Companies Improving Seed Systems for Tanzanian Farmers

TLDR

• Experiences shared by farmers from Lukinga Village in Gairo District during August 2025 illustrate how these partnerships are reshaping potato production.
• 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.
• 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.
• Through collaboration between research institutions, seed companies, development organisations and agribusiness partners, farmers are gaining the tools and confidence needed to improve productivity while building more.
• Among the organisations contributing to this progress is HZPC, a Dutch company operating in Tanzania that has expanded farmers’ access to certified, high-quality potato seed.