AgribusinessThe Bareilly food company's first overseas move, phased over ten years, puts sunflower oil first and adds dairy, contract farming and processing, with about one lakh local jobs expected.
CropsJohn Innes Centre researchers trained 21 Tanzanian scientists to use a low-cost LAMP assay that turns from pink to yellow when wheat blast is present, as the disease spreads in neighbouring Zambia.
FisheriesA WorldFish initiative running from July 2026 to June 2028 will test cheaper local fish feeds, strengthen hatcheries, improve drying, smoking and cold chains, and turn fish waste into products, with finance and digital tools for small businesses.
VegetablesA young farmer living with albinism in Biturana Ward, Tanzania, built an onion business after training and start-up seed and fertiliser from the YEFFA programme, and now employs five workers.
AgrotechGallagher is supplying remotely monitored electric fencing for a 14km elephant corridor in Tanzania's Kilombero Valley, where migrating elephants destroy sugarcane and rice crops.
AgrotechLiteWeed pairs a 4-watt blue diode laser with on-board YOLOX-nano vision on a Raspberry Pi 5, and is aimed at spot treatment on small plots rather than broadacre fields.
ILRI's Women in Business project trained 20 young women as village poultry vendors in Tanzania; seventeen of them have since delivered more than 21,600 dual-purpose Kuroiler chicks to over 4,200 farms.
Twenty-five fishers, processors and officials from Muleba and Bukoba districts worked with WorldFish, EMEDO and Tanzania's Department of Fisheries in May 2026 to map erratic rain, warming water and shifting lake levels into a locally led adaptation plan.
Fewer than a third of Tanzania's smallholders use improved seed. A new national strategy, co-designed with CGIAR and USAID, aims to take the area under improved seed from three million to six million hectares and the agro-dealer network from 3,000 to 12,000.
