Dar es Salaam, Sept. 2 -- As we enter the fourth quarter of 2025, it is worth taking a snapshot of the current status of agricultural production in the country.

Being a country that has faced multiple food crises over the decades – such as the 1972–1975 famine, the 1991–1992 drought, the 2003–2006 food shortages, the 2010–2011 food insecurity that severely affected the Horn of Africa and impacted 1.2 million people in Tanzania and the 2016–2022 food shortages that led to a crippling maize export ban – the question of food availability remains a major concern that attracts national and regional attention.

As partly indicated above, the key drivers of these crises have been drought (due to erratic...