Tanzania’s Spice Basket: What’s Actually Grown, Traded and Tracked
A map of Tanzania's five main spice crops — clove, black pepper, cardamom, vanilla and chilli — using each crop's own published production and…
Tanzania’s Sisal Archive: 126 Years of Production Data, and What It Actually Shows
Sisal.tz has carried a disclaimer suggesting Tanzania sisal data is broadly scarce. That framing does not survive contact with the Tanzania Sisal Board’s own…
Ten Seasons of Tanzania Cotton, Straight From the Regulator
The Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB) publishes its own ten-season national seed cotton production table, 2015/16 through 2024/25. It is one of the stronger primary…
Tanzania’s Two Official Sesame Counts Disagree by 2x. We’re Showing Both.
For 2022/23, Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics reports sesame production of 158,688 tonnes. The Ministry of Agriculture’s own administrative series reports 79,170 tonnes for…
Agriculture’s Share of Tanzania’s Export Earnings, 2022–2026: What the Bank of Tanzania’s Own Numbers Show
Gold's export share has surged, but Bank of Tanzania's own five-year export tables show agriculture's share has been rising too, not shrinking — and…
Tanzania Keeps Trying to Stop Exporting Raw Cashews. The Numbers Show Why It Hasn’t.
Two decades of export taxes, a new buying channel for local factories, and now a hard 2026/27 target — Tanzania is still sending away…
Why Reliable Tanzania Cardamom Price Data Barely Exists
There is no cardamom equivalent of the Cashewnut Board, no auction system, and — on close inspection — barely a handful of tracked export…
Tourism Earns Zanzibar 45 Times More Than Its Spice Exports — And the Gap Is Widening
Services exports, dominated by tourism, brought Zanzibar $1.54 billion in the year to February 2026; clove exports, its signature commodity, brought in $34 million.
Zanzibar’s Clove Export Values Swung Sharply in 2025-2026: What the Trade Data Shows
Export receipts collapsed 76 percent to $6.3 million in the year to September 2025, then climbed past $44 million by mid-2026 — a volatility…
Two Crops, Two Trajectories: Arabica and Robusta Are Growing Apart in Tanzania
USDA's latest forecast puts Tanzania's 2026/27 harvest at 1.6 million bags — and robusta, concentrated almost entirely in one region, is doing more of…