Improved Seed Systems and Technical Knowledge Boosting Potato and Horticulture Harvests in Tanzania

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.
• DAR ES SALAAM: AS Tanzania celebrates Nane Nane Agricultural Exhibition Week, a quiet transformation is unfolding across the country’s farms, where stronger partnerships, improved seed systems and practical technical.
• Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (AGCOT) Project Manager Abdallah Msambachi says long-standing challenges have been addressed through an integrated approach that combines improved seed systems with practical.