Large Scale Farm Report - Ministry Of Agriculture, Food and ...

CENSUS RESULTS92.1.1 Total number of farms and trendThe number of large scale farms has increased from 480in 1987/88 to 1,212 in 2002/03. Most of this increase wasduring the period 1987/88 to 1994/95 representing anincrease of 116 percent. The increase in the number oflarge scale farms over the period 1994/95 to 2002/03 wasmuch less at only 17 percent (from 1,039 to 1,212 largescale farms) (Chart 2.1). The private sector (privateregistered operators (36%) and private non registeredoperators (19%) and other private operators (30%)) hasthe largest number of large scale farms (85%). Theremaining 15 percent are split between Governmentoperators (12%) and parastatal organisations (4%).Number of Holdings5004003002001000437PrivateRegisteredChart 2.1a: Number of Farms and AreaCovered by Operators361OthersNumber of Farms225Private NonregisteredOperators14 5Go vernmentArea Covered44ParastatalOrganization450,000400,000350,000300,000250,000200,000150,000100,00050,0000Area CoveredHowever, whilst the largest area of large scale farms is with private registered operators (405,857 ha) the second and thirdlargest area is with parastatals (327,103 ha) and Government (283,856). The result of this is that parastatals, whilst havingthe smallest number of operators (44), have the largest area of land per operator (7,434 ha per farm. This is followed byGovernment with 958 ha per farm and then private registered farms (929 ha per farm)Table 2.1: Number of Large Scale FarmsRegion 1987/88 1994/95 2002/03% Change1994/95 -2002/03Dodoma 4 19 15 -21Arusha 133 325 142 -56Kilimanjaro 24 87 96 10Tanga 65 128 109 -15Morogoro 44 74 110 49Coast 19 54 76 41Dar es Salaam (a) (a) 80 ..Lindi 9 14 9 -36Mtwara 5 26 36 38Ruvuma 22 43 46 7Iringa 73 65 68 5Mbeya 11 34 46 35Singida 5 35 27 -23Tabora 1 18 17 -6Rukwa 4 8 11 38Kigoma 6 6 34 467Shinyanga 15 21 30 43Kagera 6 16 11 -31Mwanza 22 53 76 43Mara 12 13 17 31Manyara (b) (b) 156 ..Total 480 1,039 1,212 17Note:(a) Included in Coast(b) Included in Arusha.. Not availablelargest number of large scale farms (155, 12.8%),followed by Arusha (142, 11.7%), Morogoro (110,9.1%) and Tanga (109, 90%). Kilimanjaro, Dar esSalaam, Mwanza, Coast and Iringa. have between 50and 100 large scale farms The remaining regionshave a small number of large scale farms with Mara,Tabora, Dodoma, Kagera, Rukwa and Lindi havingthe smallest number (Chart 2.2).Some regional tends are difficult to determine: from 1987/88 to1994/95, Dar es Salaam was included in coast region and Manyararegion was included in Arusha region (Table 2.1).From 1987/88 to 1994/95 the rate of increase in the number oflarge scale farms was highest in Kigoma region (467%) followedby Morogoro and Shinyanga. However, in some regions thenumber of large scale farms decreased with the highest rate ofdecrease found in Lindi followed by Kagera (Table 2.1).In terms of number of farms the highest concentration is in thenorthern part of Tanzania (over 100 per region). Manyara has theNumber of Farms18015 616014 2140120100806040200110 10 9Chart 2.2: Number of Large Scale Farms by Region968076 766846 46ManyaraArushaMorogoroTangaKilimanjaroDar es SalaamMwanzaCoastIringaRuvumaMbeyaMtwaraRegion36 3430 2717 17 1511 11 9KigomaShinyangaSingidaMaraTaboraDodomaKageraRukwaLindiTanzania Agriculture Sample Census – 2003