Trade & Industry Organizations
Institutions, commodity boards, chambers, producer associations, cooperative unions, research bodies and government agencies active in Tanzania's commodity trade. Each profile points to the organization's own official website as the authoritative source.
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52 organizations listed.
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank is a permanent multilateral development institution with ongoing Tanzania agricultural trade finance activity, including a $10…
Cashewnut Board of Tanzania
Cashewnut Board of Tanzania is a statutory body established under the Cashew Industry Act (Chapter 203) regulating and developing Tanzania's…
Cereals and Other Produce Regulatory Authority
Statutory regulator for cereals and other produce (including maize, rice, sesame, wheat, millet and sorghum), established under the Food Security…
East African Community
Regional intergovernmental organization. Sets the Common External Tariff applied to non-EAC rice imports (75% ad valorem or USD 345/tonne, whichever…
EU-EAC Market Access Upgrade Programme (MARKUP II)
MARKUP II is an EU-funded, International Trade Centre-implemented programme supporting SME capacity building, quality compliance, certification and market access across…
FAO Intergovernmental Group on Hard Fibres
Intergovernmental consultation forum on trends in production, consumption, trade and prices of hard fibres, convened under the FAO Committee on…
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
Policy-owning ministry for beekeeping (National Beekeeping Policy 1998; Implementation Strategy 2021-2031). Sets sector targets including raising honey export share from…
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
NM-AIST's School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering conducts applied food-science research on Tanzanian commodities, including verified work on cashew-apple value…
Sisal Association of Tanzania
Apex sisal-producer industry association. Confirmed current member of the Agricultural Council of Tanzania, alongside Katani Ltd and Mkumbara Sisal Estate.
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Sokoine University of Agriculture is Tanzania's leading agricultural university. Its Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness offers dedicated agribusiness training…
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute
TARI is Tanzania's national agricultural research institute, operating 20 centres nationwide. Its Naliendele centre in Mtwara is the country's main…
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute — Mlingano Centre
National agricultural research institute (TARI Act No. 10/2016). Its Mlingano Centre (Tanga) runs sisal breeding and seedling programmes supporting the…
Tanzania Beekeeping Development Organisation
TABEDO is a private-sector beekeeping-sector coordinating body partnering with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, the Tanzania Forest Services…
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
National standards body; sets and enforces the milled rice quality standard (based on East African Standard EAS 128:2011) and issues…
Tanzania Coffee Association
Tanzania Coffee Association (TCA) is a private coffee-sector trade association, distinct from the statutory Tanzania Coffee Board. Its ongoing activity…
Tanzania Coffee Board
Tanzania Coffee Board is the government body regulating coffee growing, processing, quality and marketing under the Coffee Industry Act (Chapter…
Tanzania Coffee Research Institute
TaCRI is a stakeholder-owned coffee research institute (incorporated 2000, operational since 2001) developing improved Arabica/Robusta cultivars, providing soil/plant analysis, farm…
Tanzania Cotton Board
Statutory regulator for the cotton sector under the Cotton Industry Act, Chapter 201 (amended as recently as March 2025). Licenses…
Tanzania Forest Services Agency
Manages gazetted bee reserves under the Beekeeping Act (e.g. Mialo Kwamtoro National Bee Reserve, Chemba District, Dodoma, gazetted 2021).
Tanzania Forestry Research Institute
National beekeeping research body; authored the National Beekeeping Research Master Plan (NABERM I, 2020-2030).
Tanzania Horticultural Association
Apex private-sector horticulture body (~17,600 members). Active in the chilli/ABEC export sector — intervened to find alternative markets when EU…
Tanzania National Chamber of Commerce
Formerly branded TCCIA (Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture); rebranded as the Tanzania National Chamber of Commerce. States on…
Tanzania Plant Health and Pesticides Authority
Phytosanitary and pesticide regulator under the Plant Health Act 2020. Capsicum (chilli) export farms must be TPHPA-registered as official places…
Tanzania Private Sector Federation
Tanzania Private Sector Federation (formerly known as Tanzania Private Sector Foundation) is the apex private-sector umbrella body for Tanzania and…
Tanzania Sisal Board
Statutory regulator for the sisal sector established under the Sisal Industry Act, 1997, which also allowed privatization of previously government-owned…
Tanzania Spices Association
TASPA is a voluntary association founded in 2016 uniting farmers, traders, processors and exporters across Tanzania's spice value chain, focused…
Tanzania Tobacco Board
Tanzania Tobacco Board is the crop regulatory body established under the Tobacco Industry Act No. 24 of 2001 (as amended…
Tanzania Trade Development Authority
Statutory body established by Act No. 4 of 2009 with regulatory, executive, advisory and consultative power for developing and promoting…
Taruchina Cashew Growers Association of Tanzania (TCGA)
TCGA is a farmer-led cashew growers' association registered in 2019 as a company limited by guarantee, originating from four wards…
Tobacco Research Institute of Tanzania
TORITA is Tanzania's tobacco research institute, established in 2000 by stakeholders including the Tanzania Tobacco Board and Sokoine University of…
University of Dar es Salaam — Department of Agricultural Economics and Business
UDSM's Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, within the College of Agricultural Sciences and Fisheries Technology, focuses on applied economics…
ZACPO (Zanzibar Clove Growers Organisation)
Member-based NGO representing Zanzibar smallholder clove producers (registered 2004, Zanzibar Society Act No. 6 of 1995). Advocates for clove-sector policy…
Zanzibar Agricultural Research Institute — Kizimbani
ZARI is Zanzibar's agricultural research body; its Kizimbani station maintains a government spice research plantation for clove, black pepper, cinnamon,…
Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority
ZIPA is Zanzibar's semi-autonomous investment facilitation agency, providing one-stop investment certification, business registration, licensing and aftercare services for domestic and…
Zanzibar National Chamber of Commerce
ZNCC is the umbrella private-sector business association for Zanzibar, representing traders and businesses across industry and agriculture sectors.
Zanzibar Revenue Authority
Zanzibar's own revenue body, established under the ZRA Act No. 11 of 2022 (repealing the earlier Zanzibar Revenue Board Act…
Zanzibar State Trading Corporation
ZSTC is a Zanzibar Revolutionary Government parastatal established in 1966 as the legal buyer and exporter of cloves, Zanzibar's most…
Association of Kilombero High Quality Rice Growers
Farmer association representing 42 farmer groups (approximately 12,000 members) in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, operating 8 warehouses and 4 milling…
Cereals and Other Produce Board of Tanzania
Statutory body established under the Cereals and Other Produce Act No. 19 of 2009, under the Ministry of Agriculture. Combines…
Cotton Development Trust Fund
Statutory trust fund under the Tanzania Cotton Board, financed by a levy on cotton exports, used to centrally purchase certified…
Gando Farmers Association
Pemba-based farmers' association of organic spice growers, documented as a party to an organic-clove supply memorandum of understanding with the…
Kilimo Nyuki Tanzania
Beekeeping-sector initiative launched in 2016 (the name means "honeybee agriculture" in Swahili), working with beekeepers across several Tanzanian regions including…
Ministry of Agriculture (Tanzania)
Lead government ministry for Tanzania's agriculture sector, including administration of the National Rice Development Strategy and the primary source of…
Muleba Vanilla Development Association (MVADA)
Farmers association registered by Muleba District Council in Kagera Region to market and sell organically-grown vanilla assembled from roughly 340…
National Food Reserve Agency
Statutory strategic grain reserve agency; holds national cereal stocks (documented role is primarily maize-focused; rice-specific reserve role is less clearly…
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute — Naliendele
TARI's mandate centre for Lindi/Mtwara-region crops (cashew, sesame, pigeon pea, Bambara nut). Runs Tanzania's government-funded Sesame Research Programme and has…
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute — Ukiriguru
TARI's national mandate centre for cotton research (also roots/tubers), developing cotton varieties — e.g. UKM08 — bred for yield and…
Tanzania Cotton Association
Statutory trade association for cotton buyers, ginners and exporters, established 1997/98. Under the Cotton Industry Regulations, cotton buyers, ginners and…
Tanzania Cotton Growers Association
Apex body representing smallholder cotton-growing farmers, founded 2003. One of the formally recognized stakeholder voices (alongside TCA for buyers/ginners) in…
Tanzania Edible Oilseeds Actors
Membership-based association of oilseed value-chain actors explicitly covering sunflower, sesame and other edible oilseed commodities, grown out of the Oilseeds…
Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute
The statutory national authority for seed variety release, registration and DUS testing under the Seeds Act No. 18 of 2003…
Zanzibar Bureau of Standards
Zanzibar's semi-autonomous standards body, SADCAS-accredited (ISO/IEC 17025:2017) for chemical/food testing. Maintains the compulsory Zanzibar National Standard ZNS 332:2020 "Black pepper…