KILIMANJARO, Feb. 26 -- MICRO enterprises account for the vast majority of Tanzanias 25,650 mapped industries, new data reveal, highlighting structural challenges in the countrys industrialisation push.

Figures released by the Industrial Research and Development Organisation (TIRDO) under the National Industrial Information Management System (NIIMS) show that 15,563 of the mapped industries are micro enterprises, 8,980 are small, 625 are medium-sized and only 482 qualify as largescale operations.

The findings provide one of the clearest snapshots yet of the countrys industrial structure, underscoring the dominance of low-capital, small-scale production units in Tanzanias manufacturing landscape.

The data were compiled from Arusha, Dar ...