The Regional workshop was held at FAO offices in Dar Es Salaam from 28th November to 1st December 2016. An overview of the New CountrySTAT system based on FENIX International coding systems (HS, CPC, DAC, etc.) The importance of using the metadata The CMS - content management system The data management tool Viewing data online through...

The TWG meeting for the collection and validation of national food and agricultural statistics was held in Morogoro from 26th to 28th February 2013. The objective of the meeting was to redress the challenges of data collection, standardization and harmonisation of national food and agricultural statistics for uploading in the...

The  CountrySTAT Tanzania national secretariat convened a five –day’s meeting 19 August,2013  in Morogoro recently to step up duties of the web-based database.  Reporting at the meeting, the Country STAT national Coordinator Mr. Basike Mteleka said that the meeting went on well by accomplishing all planned duties. The salient achievements of...

There is something unique about the official launch of the CountrySTAT Tanzania web based information technology on February 24th this year (2010).    The web system established for agricultural led ministries was launched on the eve of a major conference organized by the Tanzania National Business Council, TNBC.    The conference, on Kilimo kwanza...

A one-stop online resource for national statistics on agriculture was launched in Dar es Salaam yesterday.   The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) partnered with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to establish the website.   Through the initiative, it will now be easy for researchers and other information seekers to access vital data,...

After two decades of Tanzania government's involvement in governance and business, in 1986 it shed off business and maintained governance following the coming onto the scene of President Julius Nyerere's successor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi.    Since then all government departments and ministries, including that of water and irrigation, have been confined to...

There are all signs that Tanzania is this time around determined to succeed not only in bringing about self-sufficiency in food, but also in transforming the country into a breadbasket nation for sub-Saharan Africa.   It is apparent that the government of the day has finally realized that it is only through...

Tanzania has allocated the South Korean government 100,000 hectares of land for irrigation of food crops and establishment of agro-based industries in Rufiji basin, located slightly over 100 kilometers south of Tanzania's commercial city of Dar es Salaam. The decision is a result of a visit to the South Korean capital...

"Generally, statistics is a major problem in Tanzania," the Assistant Director for Irrigation in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Mr Gabriel Kalinga told me as we settled down in his office for an interview.    This was the second time in a space of one week that Mr Kalinga had lamented...

As Tanzania government officials were busy making final touches in their ministries' respective budgets for 2010/11 financial year in the country's main sea port and commercial city of Dar es Salaam.    In Morogoro town, 200 kilometres west of Dar es Salaam, a very important and equally busy three days working session...