Tanzania: where is the beef? Tanzania has the potential to be one of Africa's biggest exporters of beef and livestock but a moribund infrastructure, diseases and poor marketing get in the way. Herald Tagama reports on efforts to revive the industry.

From: African Business | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Tanzania's national cattle herd is the third largest in Africa at 17m head--after Ethiopia and Sudan with 31m and 30m respectively. Yet it earns only a paltry $4m from the export of cattle, beef and related products, compared to the $100m Botswana earns from this agro-sector.

The government, with the support of international organisations, is now determined to reverse this trend and turn cattle into a major revenue generating resource--but obstacles remain.

The country's industrial beef production went into a tail spin when the collapse of the state-owned Tanganyika ...

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