What We do
Overview of TAHA’s main initiatives:
Advocacy & Policy
Efforts to influence policy and regulatory frameworks for a favorable business environment for horticulture.
Market Access & Trade
Support for farmers and businesses in accessing local and international markets, including recent interventions like the Hong Kong market initiative.
Capacity Building
Training and development programs for farmers, women, and youth.
Our Work
Enhance enabling business environment for the horticulture sector
TAHA addresses restrictive policy, legal, and regulatory issues that affect the functioning and competitiveness of horticulture enterprises.
This has been TAHA’s core strength as an industry leader through close collaboration with the Government of Tanzania. TAHA works to increase coordination and consolidate efforts including forming strategic partnerships to address sector prevailing issues.
Increase access to markets for Tanzanian horticultural products
To build access to markets, TAHA establishes partnerships with large-scale up-takers of horticultural products in regional and international markets.
Once such partnerships are established, backward linkages for supply are developed with TAHA members, specifically smallholders. Based on TAHA’s experience in the industry in the past decade, strategies that focus on ‘backward linkages’ that build sustainable and profitable market partnerships are more successful at increasing market access and incentives for producers to meet market demands.
Increase productivity and competitiveness of the horticulture industry
Quality, Productivity and Value Addition
TAHA targets to address quality, compliance and productivity challenges among smallholders to meet regional and international market standards. Key efforts are placed on properly guiding farmers to better understand and comply to set standards to ensure food safety, environmental compliance, and traceability.
This is done through TAHA’s technical and extension support system. Simultaneously, as the industry continues to advance, TAHA promotes agro-processing investments to increase diversification of products and value addition.
Access to Finance and Productive Resources
TAHA targets to address quality, compliance and productivity challenges among smallholders to meet regional and international market standards. Key efforts are placed on properly guiding farmers to better understand and comply to set standards to ensure food safety, environmental compliance, and traceability.
This is done through TAHA’s technical and extension support system. Simultaneously, as the industry continues to advance, TAHA promotes agro-processing investments to increase diversification of products and value addition.
Establish strategic linkages and partnerships with financial institutions and credit providers to create and test financial products that are suitable for stakeholders in the industry, specifically smallholders.
Establish a revolving fund in partnership with financial and credit providers to serve TAHA members.
Promote and provide technical assistance and training for irrigated and greenhouse production to smallholders through partnerships with private sector suppliers. TAHA’s intention is to gradually change farmers’ production patterns to reduce dependence on rain fed production and ensure continuous production throughout the year.
Implement capacity development programs to value chain actors on financial and business development aspects. This also include exposing lending institutions to industry operations to enhance their knowledge of financial and lending needs among industry operators.
Environmental Sustainability, Gender and Youth Inclusion
Horticultural activities have both positive and negative impacts on the external environment. Environmental issues in the industry are complex and poorly understood and addressed. TAHA focuses on promoting environmental sustainability and climate smart horticulture by addressing four core issues. Soil health, fertility and degradation; appropriate chemical use and disposal; water use and quality; and control of emission of harmful gasses.
Enhance taha effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability
TAHA continue to play an important role as an industry leader to drive and achieve industry growth. TAHA estimates an increase in membership as the industry grows and as its operations expand.
TAHA intends to strengthen its institutional capacity to facilitate transformation of the industry and deliver its vision and mission.
Join Us in Making a Difference
TAHA continue to play an important role as an industry leader to drive and achieve industry growth. TAHA estimates an increase in membership as the industry grows and as its operations expand.
