Share of GDP
26.3%
Agriculture's reported contribution to Tanzania's GDP. Period: 2024.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Why Tanzania · productive economy
Agriculture: scale is only the first question.
The public record shows a broad production base and a deep household footprint. The next question is visible in the same evidence: how much output is irrigated, processed and captured beyond the raw crop.
Tracked to the official source's own cadence, not presented as a streaming feed. Every chart keeps its observation date, unit and scope attached.
Evidence set checked .
Cadence: Annual survey
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Agricultural households
8.97m
Estimated agricultural households in Tanzania Mainland. Period: 2023/24.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Households engaged in crops
98.6%
Share of agricultural households engaged in crop activity. Period: 2023/24.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Household planted area irrigated
3.5%
Share of planted area irrigated among agricultural households. Period: 2023/24.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
What is the latest verified wholesale pulse?
Wholesale crop medians
As at 24 Aug 2026 · Source: Ministry of Industry & Trade (Wizara ya Viwanda na Biashara), dated wholesale price bulletins. Exact values and method remain in the static evidence table below.
Where does the survey show raw-sale exposure?
Share of selected crops sold unprocessed
As at 30 Jun 2024 · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania. Exact values and method remain in the static evidence table below.
Production base · 2023/24
10,779,334 tonnes across three selected cereals
Maize accounts for 7,443,199 tonnes, paddy 3,134,205, and sorghum 201,930 in the survey record.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania
Market record
Price is one layer of the agriculture story.
Open the crops page for the complete bulletin history, current regional observations and reporting-market coverage.
Explore the crop-price record →What the public record supports
Reading the evidence without outrunning it
Scale
A large base is visible.
Agriculture’s GDP share, household count and crop participation establish breadth. They do not, by themselves, establish productivity or processing economics.
Water
Irrigation remains a narrow layer.
Only 3.5% of household planted area was irrigated in the survey, keeping weather exposure central to the production record.
Value addition
Raw-sale shares are the bridge metric.
Very high unprocessed-sale shares in several cash crops make processing depth a measurable question rather than a slogan.
Freshness contract
What updates, and when
“Latest” means the newest verified observation the named authority has published. A source check never advances an observation date.
Event-driven bulletins; checked daily
Wholesale crop prices
Wholesale district-market observations, not farm-gate prices.
Official source
As at · Source: Ministry of Industry and Trade
Annual survey
Production, irrigation and processing state
Agricultural households and large-scale farms in Tanzania Mainland.
Official source
As at · Source: National Bureau of Statistics Tanzania