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Close-up of whole dried clove buds

Tanzania & Zanzibar Cloves: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Zanzibar — and above all the island of Pemba — built its 19th-century economy on cloves…

Tanzania Avocado: Sourcing Guide

Overview Tanzania's avocado export industry is centred on Hass variety fruit grown in the Southern Highlands…
Unripe black pepper berries (peppercorns) on the vine

Tanzania Black Pepper: Sourcing Guide

Overview Black pepper (Piper nigrum, mainland genotypes locally named BABUKUBWA, ISMAILIA, BABUNDOGO, FUPI, NDEFU and KATI)…
Cacao pods growing directly on a tree trunk

Tanzania Cacao & Cocoa: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania is a small but distinctive cacao origin — a fraction of one percent of world…
Fresh vivid-green cardamom pods clustered on the living Elettaria cardamomum plant in a shaded plantation

Tanzania Cardamom: Origins, Production & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania has grown cardamom in its Eastern Arc mountain forests for over a century and was…
Cluster of young cashew nuts still attached to the tree

Tanzania Cashews: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania is one of Africa's largest raw cashew nut producers, with output concentrated in the southern…

Tanzania Chilli: Origins, Production & Sourcing Guide

African bird's-eye chili (pili pili) is a real, actively-promoted Tanzanian smallholder crop — grown across coastal,…
Cinnamon tree with bark scraped off, exposing the inner bark used to produce the spice, Zanzibar

Tanzania Cinnamon: Sourcing Guide

Overview Cinnamon is a real, if minor and volatile, part of Tanzania's spice export portfolio, grown…
Coffee plants growing on a farm in Arusha Region, Tanzania

Tanzania Coffee: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania's coffee sector spans volcanic northern highlands and the fertile Southern Highlands, producing distinctive washed Arabicas…
Wild cotton plant growing near Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

Tanzania Cotton: Sourcing Guide

Overview Cotton is grown almost entirely (98.8-99.9% of national production, every season) in the "Western Cotton…
Fresh ginger rhizome

Tanzania Ginger: Sourcing Guide

Overview Ginger is named in Tanzania's government-linked spice-sector priority cluster (alongside cloves, pepper, cinnamon and cardamom)…
Close-up of a honey bee with visible pollen baskets, photographed in Tanzania

Tanzania Honey: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania is one of Africa's leading honey and beeswax producers, drawing on vast Miombo woodlands worked…
Paddy rice fields with hills in the background, Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Tanzania Rice: Market, Production & Sourcing Guide

An overview of Tanzania's rice sector for B2B buyers — production regions, quality grading, the domestic…
Sesame plant flower photographed near Liparamba, southern Tanzania, close to the Mozambique border

Tanzania Sesame: Sourcing Guide

Overview Sesame (Swahili: simsim or ufuta) is a smallholder-dominated export cash crop grown across at least…
Sisal plantations in the foreground with the Uluguru Mountains in the background, near Morogoro, Tanzania

Tanzania Sisal: Sourcing Guide

Overview Sisal (Agave sisalana) was introduced to Tanga in 1893 and by independence (1961) Tanganyika/Tanzania was…
Six cured vanilla bean pods

Tanzania Vanilla: Market, Origins & Sourcing Guide

Tanzania produces a small but reputationally strong volume of vanilla — concentrated in Kagera, Kilimanjaro and…

Zanzibar Seaweed: Sourcing Guide

Overview Zanzibar is the centre of Tanzania's commercial seaweed industry -- almost entirely Eucheuma denticulatum ("spinosum"),…