Latest information on coffee producing areas in Tanzania Tanzania plans to produce 300000 tons of coffee by 2025

Tanzania Coffee Festival

A coffee festival organized by coffee stakeholders in Tanzania is scheduled to be held from October 1 to 3, Xinhua reported on September 30. The festival attracts local and foreign coffee stakeholders and aims to mobilize young people to cultivate interest in coffee cultivation.

Primus Kimaryo, acting Director-General of the Tanzania Coffee Council (TCB), said he hoped local and foreign exhibitors would showcase new technologies for growing coffee, as well as challenges and solutions facing the coffee industry. The festival also provides an opportunity for buyers and sellers to meet and potential cooperation in this unstable market.

Increase production to 300000 tons in 2025

The Tanzania Coffee Council (Tanzania Coffee Board), a government agency responsible for managing the coffee industry in East Africa, said on Sunday that it had begun to take positive measures to increase Tanzania's annual coffee production from the current 70, 000 tons to 300000 tons by 2025, China International Television CGTN reported on Oct. 3.

Aurelia Kauzora, head of the Tanzania Coffee Council, said the group was working with Tanzanian coffee stakeholders to ensure annual coffee production of 300000 tons by 2025 and to supply coffee growers with large quantities of coffee seedlings at a three-day coffee festival in the northern Tanzanian city of Mohi at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak.

Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture Adolf Mkenda said that the Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TaCRI) has successfully developed coffee seeds that can withstand drought conditions. Mkanda also called on financial institutions to support the government, aimed at promoting the growth of coffee, a cash crop.

In early April 2021, President Samia Suluhu Hassan (Samia Suluhu Hassan) of Tanzania instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to increase the production of strategic crops, including coffee, so that the country could obtain much-needed foreign exchange through the export of these crops.

Increased domestic sales of coffee in Tanzania

The Tanzanian Daily News (Tanzania Daily News) reported on October 3 that local coffee consumption is expected to rise to 15 per cent from the current 7 per cent, affected by local coffee consumption activities and the government's aim to reduce the dependence of Tanzanian products on foreign markets.

The news was announced by Primus Kimaryo, acting Director-General of the Tanzania Coffee Commission (TCB), during this year's World Coffee Day.

Primus Kimaryo said it would continue to encourage the digestion of products in the local market and expand domestic demand so as to avoid over-reliance on foreign markets.

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