Dar es Salaam, Oct. 26 -- TANZANIA has natural resources, business talent and entrepreneurial spirit to strengthen its role in regional and global trade. It boasts commodities with strong international market potential, including coffee from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mbeya region; cashews from Mtwara; cotton from the western regions; fish from Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean; and minerals such as gold, graphite and tanzanite.

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Yet having products that international markets want is only part of the equation. Businesses also need money to buy raw materials, pay farmers and suppliers, process and package goods, transport shipments and meet op...