Building Better Lives Through Better Farming
Since 1935
Tanzania’s smallholder farmers are working harder while earning less.
When farmers lose value, so do consumers, the environment, and the wider economy.
TFA exists to help farmers create more value from their land and build better lives.
Our 2030 vision
To be the platform Tanzania's smallholder farmers trust. Connecting them to what they need to earn more, live better, and thrive for generations.
TFA Today
Today, TFA is one of Tanzania’s longest-standing agricultural organisations, serving more than 4,800 members across the country. Since 1935, TFA has supplied farmers with agricultural inputs, services, and support through a nationwide branch network, helping connect smallholder and commercial farmers to products, knowledge, and opportunity.
TFA’s reach extends across Tanzania through branches, depots, distributors, and strategic infrastructure located in key agricultural regions. From Arusha to Mbeya, Moshi to Iringa, TFA has built deep relationships within farming communities over decades, with plans to continue expanding its services, systems, and national presence.
For partners and investors, TFA offers something rare: a trusted 90-year-old institution already embedded inside Tanzania’s agricultural system. TFA combines farmer trust, physical infrastructure, commercial assets, and nationwide reach with a strong ambition to modernise agriculture, improve farmer outcomes, and unlock long-term economic growth across the sector.
Building a Better Future Together
The future of Tanzania’s agricultural economy depends on helping smallholder farmers create more value from their land and build better lives.
TFA is uniquely placed to help make this happen through its trusted farmer relationships, branch network, infrastructure, local knowledge, and on-the-ground reach across Tanzania.
But we cannot — and should not — do it alone.
TFA’s role is to become the trusted platform that helps the best local and global partners reach farmers more effectively, with lower risk and greater impact. We help bring solutions into farming communities, adapt them to local realities, and improve how they work on the ground.
The farmer who works the land must be the first to benefit from it. This is not a privilege. It is a right.
- Justin Shirima
TFA believes the future of Tanzania’s agricultural economy depends on helping smallholder farmers create more value from their land and build better lives. But achieving this will require collaboration.
We are actively looking to work with local and global partners who share this vision and want to help