Deal #1865

Tanzania
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2024-05-29
Last full update
2024-05-29

Land area

Intended size
100 000 ha
Comment on land area
50 000ha for company and 50 000ha for outgrowers (on the lease). Another data source states starting with a total of 50,000 hectares of which 50% will be developed into an out-grower irrigation scheme operated by local farmers while the other 50% will be operated by the company along the nucleus contract farming concept.

Intention of investment

Intention of investment
  • [current] Food crops
Comment on intention of investment
Rice production

Carbon offset project

Carbon offset project
No

Nature of the deal

Nature of the deal
Lease

Negotiation status

Negotiation status
  • [2011] Intended (Memorandum of understanding)
  • [2012, current] Failed (Negotiations failed)
Comment on negotiation status
MoU signed in 2011 but lapsed. MOU was signed for 15000ha. The investor pulled out of the project and the government is trying to find investors to develop the land into a sugarcane plantation.

Implementation status

Comment on implementation status
MoU lapsed

Contract farming

Contract farming
Yes
On leased / purchased
Yes
On leased area/farmers/households
  • [current] 50000 ha
Comment on contract farming
50 000ha for company and 50 000ha for outgrowers (on the lease). Another data source states starting with a total of 50,000 hectares of which 50% will be developed into an out-grower irrigation scheme operated by local farmers while the other 50% will be operated by the company along the nucleus contract farming concept.