Partnerships with Companies Creating Structured Marketing Opportunities for Farmers
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- 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.