TANZANIA: REGIONAL INVESTMENT GUIDES

 Geita Region is blessed with agricultural, livestock, water and mineral resources with a potential to a rapid economic growth path matching, if not surpassing, other regions in Tanzania. 

• The region has vast gold reserves that merit the region the name “the Golden State” of Tanzania. Geita Region has sufficient agricultural land suitable for cultivation of crops such as paddy, cotton, maize, black peas, cassava, horticultural products etc. 
• Lake Victoria and its shores in Geita offer fishing and tourism opportunities, and transport linkages to other neighbouring regions and countries.

• Iringa Region enjoys the country’s conducive investment and trade policies, political stability and well-prepared development frameworks based on the National Development Vision 2025.
• Tanzania, with its large and growing domestic population, literate and skilled workforce,  strategic location, abundant natural resources, unique tourism attractions, supportive infrastructure (good roads, electricity and water supply, and telecommunication services) and internal political stability, presents an attractive investment opportunity to investors.

 INVEST IN MANYARA REGION: 

• Available Favourable Conditions for Investments

The region possesses significant potential for lucrative investment, whichhas yet to be exploited mainly due to a lack of promotion and publicity. 

Various tourist attractions such as Lake Manyara National Park, TarangireNational, Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), potential culturalcentres, Mount Hanang, which is the habitat of leopards, klipspringer, velvetmonkeys, olive baboons parks and dik-dik and a variety of bird species, and MountKwaraa is located within Babati Township and has a catchment forest, whichis a habitat for elephants and buffaloes in all seasons of the year Rich mineral deposits such as gold, gypsum, and phosphate, as well as avariety of gemstones such as tanzanite, green tourmalines, ruby crone,rhodolite, green garnet, almandine and red garnet. Tanzanite is foundnowhere else in the world except in Mererani Hills, Simanjiro District inManyara Region

Other natural resources include natural forest reserves, lakes Manyara,Babati, Burunge, Balang’dalalu, Bassotu, Basodesh, and Tlawi
Strategic location of the regional capital town, Babati, which links Singida,Tabora and the lake zone regions of Mwanza, Mara and Shinyanga. It alsolinks with Dodoma and Arusha regions through the Great North Road.

Manyara Region has a lot of opportunities for investors. There is adequateland for agriculture, abundance of livestock, minerals like tanzanite as well asmany attractive tourist strategic areas. 

However, before Manyara became a region, itlacked adequate visibility, as all its investment opportunities were known asopportunities in the Arusha Region which Manyara was part of. 

Suggested Priority Investment Areas in Mbeya Region

Interested parties are welcome to invest in the following suggested priority

investment areas, which are more detailed in Part Three of this guide.

1.4.1 Summary of Regional-Level Priority Investment Opportunities

Interested parties are welcome to invest in the following suggested priority

investment areas:

i. Production of packaging materials for both primary and secondary

processing industries,  ii. Meat processing,  iii. Leather products processing

iv. Milk processing,  v. Primary and secondary processing of horticulture, floriculture and

herbs products,  vi. Construction of a dry port,  vii. Production of pharmaceuticals

viii. Animal feed processing,  ix. Construction of an industrial park.

1.4.2 Summary of Council-Level Priority Investment Opportunities

i. Banana processing,  ii. Avocado processing,  iii. Cocoa processing

iv. Sunflower processing,  v. Round potatoes processing,  vi. Honey processing

vii. Water bottling,  viii. Cashew nut block farming

ix. Paddy processing and packaging,  x. Fish farming and processing

xi. Farm machinery hire services,  xii. Manufacturing of various products from rice husks and other wood

products,  xiii. Construction of a modern sports stadium and recreation facilities

xiv. Commercial business and trade service facilities

xv. Construction of modern bus stations and vehicle parking facilities

xvi. Construction of hospitals, health care centres and dispensaries

xvii. Construction of primary/secondary schools and vocational training

institutes,  xviii. Construction of commercial cold rooms and refrigeration services

xix. Development of irrigation farming infrastructure

xx. Extraction of minerals and stone quarrying

xxi. Construction of a factory to produce dustless chalks, limestone

marble products, and lampshades.  

xxii. Tourism and hospitality industry (skyline tourism, construction of hotels,

motels, and campsites, and establishment of tour guide companies, etc.).

Shinyanga Region has a population of about 2 million, who derive their

livelihoods largely from agriculture, mining, industrial production, livestock keeping, transport, trade, and tourism. 

 The per capita income is about TZS 1.86 million, which portrays a reasonable regional purchasing power.

Investors are warmly welcome to invest in the identified priority investment areas at regional and council levels. Regional level priority investment opportunities include: construction of sports centre of excellence; meat processing industry; and leather processing industry. 

Council level priority investment opportunities include; construction of shopping malls and modern markets; real estate development;

* tourism related investments; construction of an industrial park at Kwala; establishment of commercial centres at Soga, Ruvu and Kwala Railway Stations; 

* bee keeping; fruit farming and processing industries; salt farming and processing; coconut farming and processing; horticultural irrigation farming; fish farming; fish processing; cassava processing; 

* construction of a damp site and processing of solid waste; marine transport; irrigation farming for paddy, sugar cane and other crops; dairy farming and milk processing industry; construction of a modern abattoir;

*modern medical services; cement industry; cashew-nuts farming and processing; sesame processing; organic manure plant; bus stand; animal fattening farm/feedlot; education services; sports and games tourism; wood processing; mining industry and stone quarrying.