The document discusses challenges facing youth in the agro-business sector in Tanzania and potential solutions. It outlines that youth face difficulties like inadequate capital, small farm sizes, use of traditional techniques, lack of skills, and lack of access to credit. However, youth are energetic and could boost the sector. The government should provide training, improve youth access to land, credit, markets and technologies to develop their agribusinesses. Collaboration between public and private sectors could help address the challenges.

1. Shine Green
Farms
SUGECO’S
CONTRIBUTION TO
THE YOUTHS
Mission:
SUGECO’s mission
is to prepare, enable,
and support
knowledge-
intensive, innovative
entrepreneurs as they
build successful
businesses along
agricultural,
agribusiness, forest,
and livestock and
fisheries sector
throughout
Tanzania.
Vision:
Create future
generations of
successful business
persons who
transform our culture
to value
entrepreneurship and
help to create a
vibrant interplay
between the informal
economy and formal
economy.
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0712208855 Abdul shango
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Strategic context of the agro business strategy
Andlongterm economic
and social development
goalsfor three reasons.
First,widespread
improvementsinfarm
incomesare a precondition
to reductionof rural
poverty.Second,any
strategyfor addressingfood
securitymustinvolve
actionsto improve
agricultural andlivestock
productionandfarm
incomes,thirdagriculture-
As the single major contributor to
national GDP, is keyto the
country’s overall economic
development now andin the near
future. Its potential in this regard
is substantial.
The Agricultural Sector
Developmentstrategy,
whichisthe conclusionof a
participatoryconsultative
processamonga wide range
of sectorstakeholders,
providesabasisfor action
by boththe publicand
private sectorstosupport
Tanzania’seffortsto
stimulate agricultural
growthand to reduce rural
poverty.
Thisstrategyis an integral
componentof the ongoing
macroeconomicadjustment
and structural reformsthat
are supportedby
Tanzanian’sdevelopment
partners.The mediumterm
objectivesare determined
by povertyreduction
strategypaperand the long
termgoalsby the Tanzania
DevelopmentVision2025.
Agriculture isimportantto
Tanzania’simmediate-
Shine green farms
Discussedissues:-
Sugeco’scontribution P.1
Youthsin agro business P.2
Government’s role P.3
Availableopportunities and youths agro
business activities P.4
Challenges facing youth in agro-
business industry.
Article Created by; Abdul jafari shango
Young people indeveloping countries
especiallyTanzaniaare the most affected by
common persistent problems including extreme
poverty, HIV/AIDSandunemployment, yet theyare
often overlookedinaddressingthese problems.
Youth unemployment is highinurban areas thanin
rural areasmainlybecause most employments
opportunitiesinurban require skilledlabor of which
most youths inurban lack hence endup to thinkof
employing themselves andget engagedin trade or
business offinishedgoods but endlesslyothers go
further to focus onagrobusiness sector but
unfortunatelytheyare put intovarious setbacks to
their productionactivities hence failure to tolerate.
In rural areasmost ofyouths are informally
employed insubsistence agriculture and familybased
livelihood activities such as handicraft, fishing, shops
etc. however performance ofsubsistence farming is
unfavorable due to several factors including low
productivity, overdependence onrainfed agriculture,
low use of agriculturalinputs andpoor marketing
systems. Due to this rural youths are forced to move
to urban informal sectors whichis characterizedby
low incomes andpoor working conditions.
Despite these challenges in subsistence farming
in Tanzania, young people are most energetic
humanresources to foster development of
agricultural sector inTanzania.
However for manyyears the government has
overlookedandforgottenthe important
contribution youngpeople have in agriculture
development in Tanzania.
This studythus looks on current status on
challengesthat youths face duringinvolvement
in the agro business zone as well as the position
of the government incollaboration withprivate
sectors to developmore effective andefficient
measures to implement more support to the
youths intheir engagements inthe agro business
sector soas to enable them to enroll with
available opportunitiesinthis vital sector for the
improvement of not onlythe youths life
standards but alsoto supplement the backbone
of the country’s development.

2. EYE ONIT
Opportunities in
agricultural sector for the
youths…
President Jakaya
Kikwete has officially
opened the first youth
agricultural training
camp at Mkongo in
Rufiji district, Coast
Region tomorrow.
According to the
Director General of
Rufiji Basin
Development Authority
(RUBADA) Aloyce
Masanja, the brain
behind of the project,
the camp is part of
implementation of the
Youth in Agricultural
Programme - YIAP.
“This is part of efforts
to prove to the youth in
the country that
agriculture pays,” he
told journalists
yesterday in Dar es
Salaam.
Masanja said that the
camp seeks to provide
skills to youths and
enable them to
profitably engage in
agricultural activities as
a way of realizing the
government’s ambitious
‘Big Results Now’.
Agricultural
activities
involving youths
RUBADA is rolling out
the training by using a
“Hub and Spoke”
modal where a big local
or foreign investor will
be a “Hub” while small
holder farmers will be
“Spoke”.
It’s expected to have
five training camps
which will harbor 300
youths each for this
financial year, the
training will be offered
for a period of one year.
The camps will be
responsible in offering
trainings on modern
agricultural practices;
mechanized methods;
environmental
protection; value
addition; project write
ups and formation of
community and saving
groups among others.
The trainings will be
grouped in three major
areas of producing high
value crops especially
horticulture products
and fruits; modern
livestock keeping; and
fishing.
Mkongo camp which
will begin with 50
youths has the capacity
of taking 300 youths at
par.
“RUBADA expects to
AMONGEST THE SETBACKS FOR
YOUTHS FULL PARTICIPATION IN THE
AGRO BUSINESS SECTOR
Findings and researches for the go about
challenges in the vital sector
TOMATO CULTIVATION ON A ½
AN ACRE PIECE OF LAND
- Youths are facing a
problemof inadequate
amounts of capital to
finance the production
activities
- Due to the use of the
conventionalmethods
in agriculturalactivities
theyhence fondof not
affording the high
prices set for the
incentives and
equipments for their
productionactivities
- Theyface a problem
also offarm sizes being
too small average of 2
acres or evenless than
that, leads to low
productions
- Low growth of incomes
hence lower their
activitiesandas well as
poor connectivityto the
value chains and
markets.
- Theystilluse the
traditional techniques-
“Cross cutting challenges that youths
faced in agro business today”
Wherebytheyproduce veryless
compared to the market
requirements andas well
compared to the waythe
competitionis inside andoutside
the country.
- Government and
donors focus more on
improvingagricultural
value chains for cash
crops lie tea, cotton,
cashewnuts, coffee,
sugar cane etc. living
behindother crops
especiallythe
horticultural as well fail
to promote other
agricultural activitiesto
which evenmost ofthe
youths are engagedin.
- Banks negative attitude
towards Agro-
financing. Experience
and studies showthat
most banks in Tanzania
consider agriculture
sector as too riskyto
qualifyfor financing
with exceptions of a
few whichhave been
trying their level best to
provide a conducive
environment for
financing this sector.
Largelyenoughthe banks and
financing institutions that provide
financing interms ofloans have
higher interests rates most above
14 percent but alsorequire
detailedbusinessplans,
collaterals like land tittles and
focus onlarge scale farms
projects withthe scale not less
than even 50 hectaresof farm
land. These conditions are mostly
not conducive for people especial
the youths as most ofthem are
smallholders andespeciallyin
rural hence not qualifyfor the
financing therefore tends to
hinder their involvement inagro
business activities.
- Most if not manyyoung
people inagriculture
lack better farming
techniques andthe
agro businessskills
especiallyhorticultural
farming lack these skills
and end uppracticing
basedonexperiences.
Hence thisandother
challengesput youths
involvedinthis type of
agriculture unable to
produce better quality
and adequate
quantities products
hence failto secure
their markets.
Policies that will recognize
youth andallocate landfor
youth agricultural projects in
urban andrural areas.
- The government
should promote
successful youth
agricultural groups
and present themin
communityas role
models as wayto
attract more youths
in agriculture sector.
- The government
should improve
access to markets for
agricultural products
and informationon
available
opportunitiesin
farming to enable
youth engaged in
agriculture access and
capitalize onthem.
- Youths shouldbe
mobilized into
farmer’s cooperatives
both rural andurban
areas from district
level to village level
and promote youth
agricultural projects
through technical
skills andfinancial
support.
- Improve land
formalizationprocess
in rural andurban
areas to enable youth
own bankable land.
- Better land reform
policies to allocate
landfor youthto
access the
agricultural projects -
- Better credit and
finance facilityfor
youth agricultural
activitiesto develop
an attractive loan
obtainingas well as
credit package for
youth international
banks, SACCOS
projects from local
district andrural
areas as evenin
village government
level.
- Improve access to
markets for
agricultural products,
linkyouths with
agribusiness to small
and large processing
companies involved
food processing
industries, retail and
wholesale food
markets.
- To put stable and
effective policies
concerning the prices
for the input
materialsand
incentives involvedin
their production
activitiesespecially
the equipments
hence enablingthe
young entrepreneurs
in their productions
and acquire health,
good qualityproducts
and inanappropriate
quantityto manage
the competitive
access inthe markets
with other producers.
- The government
should playa vital
role of providing
agribusiness
management training
on better farming
techniques onshort
term crops especially
horticultural crops
where manyyouths
are engagedinto.
- The government
should strengthen
and impose more
efforts onpromoting
various projects
through technical and
fundingsupport.
- Provide more
business
management and
entrepreneurship
training focus on
using onagricultural
projects to young
people withemphasis
on more advanced
entrepreneurial
techniques.
- The government
through its agencies
in collaborationwith
private sector should
developsuitable
credit andfinance
facilityfor agricultural
projects managed
and ranbyyoung
farmers particularly
for those inrural
areas but alsothose
alreadyengagedinto
the activities.
- The government
should develop
suitable landreform-
To attract youth and helpimprovingtheir agro businessactivitiesa multi- stake holder process
and analysis must be takenin which government,donor community,NGO’sand private sector
must address the following:
Government support to the youth(s).