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