Welcome to Tanzania Agricultural Trade Information Centre (TATIC) Website

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Welcome to Tanzania Agricultural Trade Information Centers (TATIC) Website. The site provides agriculturala trade information information and Trade negotiation of relevance to Tanzania . It gives stakeholders all the information they want regarding Agriculture. The information in this web page includes agricultural products markets, both local and International markets, it gives sources of agricultural products in Tanzania, provide access to Agricultural market access researches and studies, as well as updating the stakeholders on what is new in the Agriculture sector in Tanzania.Also it features materials and links to other trade information world wide.

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TATIC Project

The Tanzania Agricultural Trade Information Centre (TATIC) is part of the implementation programme of an FAO/MAFC project on Strengthening National Capacity in Agricultural Trade and Trade Negotiations Within the Framework of the Umbrella II Programme (clicking to provide details of the project). The centre act as a central information and resource centre for all stakeholders in Tanzania 's agricultural trade related issues.

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Our services is to provide agriciltural trade related information to our custommers. Our custommers include all government organs, private traders, various institutions and any other groups or individuals interested with our services.

The centre provides production and trade data and information for various crops and by products. This information is viewed through TATIC Database. The information is collected from various sources including Tanzania government institutions and relevant international websites.

Overview on Tanzania Economy

Agriculture is the leading sector of the economy of Tanzania. Apart from providing food, agriculture remains the country's main source of income for the rural population, which forms 80% of the total population and employs 70% of the active labour force of the population. It contributes about 50% of the GDP and about 75% of the foreign exchange earnings. In Tanzania Agriculture is dominated by smallholder farmers with farm sizes ranging between 1 hectare and 3 hectares. Most of these smallholders use the hand hoe as the main cultivating tool. Ox ploughs are used by about twenty percent of the farmers and about ten per cent use tractors.

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Trade News in Brief

Read trade news from various trade information sources around the world.

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest - Vol. 10, Number 21 14 June 2006:

The Doha Round of trade negotiations was put into deep freeze on 24 July, after a meeting of ministers from six key trading nations collapsed over divisions on how to cut farm subsidies and tariffs.

It is not clear when -- or if -- the talks, which started nearly five years ago, will resume. There is no timetable for doing so. Kamal Nath , India 's commerce minister, said that the round, though not dead, "is between intensive care and the crematorium."

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