Central Corridor – Ushoroba wa Kati

Regions Covered: Dodoma, Singida, Tabora, and Lake Zone regions (e.g., Mwanza, Shinyanga, Simiyu, Geita)

Strategic Role:
The Central Corridor serves as Tanzania’s food basket for dryland farming systems, focusing on strategic crops and livestock suitable for semi-arid climates.

Priority Value Chains:

  • Sunflower – oil production, local and export
  • Pulses – especially pigeon peas, green gram
  • Livestock – cattle, goats, and poultry
  • Cereal crops – sorghum, millet, maize

Corridor Highlights:

  • Development of drought-resilient technologies
  • Feed production for livestock
  • Strategic location linking all other corridors via Dodoma
  • Agro-processing hubs for edible oils and meat