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CENSUS RESULTS462.14.4 Services provided to out-grower farmersOf the total large scale farms only 25 percent provide services to out-grower farmers (Chart 2.116). Manyara has thehighest number of farms providing services to out-growers (56 farms, 19%), followed by Morogoro (34 farms, 11%),Iringa (24 farms, 8%) and Mwanza (23 farms, 8%). Regions with a small number of farms providing services to outgrowerfarmers include Dodoma, Rukwa, Lindi, Kagera, Mara and Dar es Salaam (Chart 2.117).Farms NOTP ro vide S e rvic e sto OutgrowerFarmers, 911, 75%Chart 2.116: Number of Farms Providing Services toOutgrower FarmersFarms Provide Services to Outgrower FarmersFarms NOT Provide Services to OutgrowerFarms ProvideServices toOutgro werFarmers, 301,25%However, the regions with the highest percentage of farmsproviding extension services to out-growers are Mtwara(53%), Tabora (53%), Kagera (45%) and Lindi (44%).Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Coast and Tanga regions have theN umber of Farms Providing Services6050403020100Chart 2.117: Percent of Farms Providing S ervices to Out-growers by Region53 5336 3537 353531 3030 30ManyaraMorogoroIringa1614MwanzaMtwaraRuvumaMbeyaKilimanjaroTangaKigomaArushaNumber Providing Services to Out-grower Farmers7Chart 2.118: Farms Provided Services to Out-growers byType of ActivityCrops Only,195, 65%11835TaboraShinyangaCoastSingidaDar es SalaamMaraKagera45442713LindiRukwaDodomaPercent Providing Services to Out-growers6050403020100Percent of FarmsRegionlowest percentage of farms providing the services (Chart2.117).2.14.5 Farms that provided services to out-growers bytype of activityThe results show that most farms that provide services toout-growers are crops only farms. Out-growers dealing withlivestock received the least services from large scale farms.Crops andLivestock, 67,22%Crops Only Livestock Onl;y Crops and LivestockLivestockOnl;y, 39, 13%Out of 301 farms that provided services 65 percent are cropsonly farmers, 22 percent crops and livestock whilst only 13 percent are livestock only farmers (Chart 2.118).2.14.6 Out-growers and the services rendered to themChart 2.119 shows the number of out-growers and theservices rendered to them by large scale farms. Cropprocessing is the most common service rendered to outgrowerfarmers. This was followed by extension services,cultivation and crop marketing. Other services rendered lessthan 10,000 out-growers.Services RenderedChart 2.119: Number of Out-growers by Services Rendered to themCrop ProcessingExtension ServiceCultivationCrop MarketingLivestock MarketingHarvestingSt oringCrop HusbandryLivestock ProductsLivestock Facilities51,72924,97823,16211,7449,8627,0615,7144,8724,0251,3420 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000Number of Out-growersTanzania Agriculture Sample Census – 2003