SAGCOT Corridor is a transformative agricultural initiative aimed at boosting productivity, enhancing food security, and driving inclusive economic growth across the southern regions of the country. Stretching from Dar es Salaam on the eastern coast to Sumbawanga in the west, the corridor serves as a key national platform for agribusiness development and rural transformation.
📍 Corridor Overview
🔹 Eastern Gateway: Dar es Salaam
The corridor begins in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s primary port city. It acts as the export and logistics hub, enabling agricultural produce from the corridor to reach regional and international markets efficiently.
🔹 Central Agricultural Hubs: Morogoro and Iringa
These regions form the agricultural heart of the corridor, hosting large-scale and smallholder farming activities with a focus on staple crops, horticulture, and irrigation schemes.
🔹 Southern Highlands: Mbeya and Songwe
With fertile soils and a favorable climate, these highland regions support diverse crop cultivation including tea, coffee, maize, and beans—key drivers of both domestic consumption and export growth.
🔹 Western Frontier: Sumbawanga (Rukwa Region)
The corridor extends to Tanzania’s western border, integrating underutilized agricultural land into the national food system and unlocking opportunities for agribusiness expansion.
🌐 Strategic Linkages
While the core focus is on the central and southern regions, SAGCOT’s infrastructure and supply chain improvements have ripple effects in northern and southern Tanzania, supporting market integration and agricultural trade across regions.
🏗️ Enabling Infrastructure
SAGCOT’s development has been supported by targeted investments in:
- Road and transport upgrades to improve market access
- Irrigation systems to boost climate resilience and productivity
- Agro-processing zones to reduce post-harvest losses and add value
- Power and electrification projects enabling rural industry growth
Together, these investments have made the SAGCOT Corridor a model of agricultural transformation—paving the way for national scale-up under AGCOT.