TANZANIA: NATIONAL RICE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PHASE II (NRDS II) 2019-2030

Tanzania’s commitment to address the food and nutrition
security issues is well re ected in the Long Term
Perspective Plan, National Five Year Development Plan,
National Agriculture Policy 2013, Tanzania Agriculture
Food Security Investment Plan, and Agricultural Sector
Development Plan Phase Two.  ese national and sectoral
development frameworks envisage the agriculture sector growth of up to 7.6 % by
year 2020. In view of the foregoing, the Government’s commitment is to transform
the agriculture from the current subsistence farming towards commercialization and
modernization.  is will be attained through crop intensi cation, diversi cation,
technological advancement and development of supporting production and
marketing infrastructures.
 e transformation requires integrated and collective e orts to improve institutions
and policies as well as technical know-how involved in production and marketing
of agricultural produces. In response to these trends, the Government of Tanzania
is implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally agreed targets of
addressing poverty, hunger, employment and economic growth by the year 2030.
 e second phase of National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS II) has been prepared
through a participatory approach involving various rice development actors along
the rice value chains. I hope that the twelve years implementation of this strategy
will sustain rice self-su ciency, contribute to the regional self-su ciency, enable rice
market leadership, and inject competitiveness through signi cant improvements in
terms of quality, quantity and value of the rice produced in Tanzania.
In this respect, it gives me great pleasure to present the NRDS II to all stakeholders in
rice development.  e implementation of NRDS II will involve all stakeholders from
public, private, development partners, farmers,  nancial institutions and non-state
actors.
I would like to urge all the stakeholders to bring their collective strengths to pursue the
rice initiative transformation agenda which, without doubt, will contribute signi cantly
to the country’s development targets. It is necessary therefore that the NRDS II
interventions are shared and supported by all stakeholders in the rice development and
each one of us in our di erent capacities to implement the NRDS II in order to achieve
the goals we have set for industrial development.

 

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