Central Corridor – Ushoroba wa Kati

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