Development of Livestock Sector in Tanzania - a joint approach with China

Abstract

The livestock sector is among the significant sectors in poverty mitigation in Tanzania National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty. Livestock offers employment opportunities, source of food nutrition, energy and mode of conveyance in various parts of the country. Moreover, domestic animals like cows, goat, sheep, poultry, and pigs are the means of getting money for consumption. There is an increase in demand for livestock products resulting from the increase of population size around the world. This paper will contribute to the increase in investment in the Livestock sector to transform the economy to an industrialized economy by using livestock resources. The role of cooperation was used to evaluate how Tanzania and China cooperation develop sectors of the economy. The findings showed that there was no development made in the investment in the livestock sector through this cooperation to transform the current state of industries. The lower level of technology through ought the livestock value chain draw back the development of industries in Tanzania economy. The suggestion made from the study is that the efforts made to develop other sectors of the economy like infrastructures in main roads, office buildings, institutions framework can be used through this cooperation to develop the industrial sector to transform the current state of the economy to an industrialized economy.