Targeted investments in Tanzanian agriculture contributed to increasing yields for crops such as paddy, maize, or tomato in a range of 60 to 120 per cent in those areas where irrigation and extension activities were carried out at a substantial level, a new country programme evaluation by the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), presented today in Dar es Salaam, reveals.

Tanzania has the second-largest IFAD portfolio (in terms of volume of lending) in the East and Southern Africa region, after Ethiopia. Since the beginning of IFAD's operations in the country in 1978, IFAD has financed 14 loan-funded investment projects of US$360 million, and has mobilized more than US$700 million in support to agricultural development projects. 

The government has provided cofinancing of US$72 million, or about 10 per cent of total portfolio costs. Additional contributions were provided by other donors, notably the African Development Bank, the World Bank and the governments of Belgium, Japan and Ireland.

The evaluation recommended that IFAD support the next phase of the Agricultural Sector Development Programme – a governmental programme that aims to improve farmers' access to and use of agricultural knowledge, technologies, marketing systems and infrastructure, in Mainland and Zanzibar.READ MORE HERE

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