Tanzania, Aug. 19 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's Southern Highlands has been tasked with playing a bigger role in driving food production, industrialisation and trade as the government seeks to build a $1 trillion economy by 2050.

The six-region bloc of Songwe, Mbeya, Rukwa, Katavi, Iringa and Njombe is expected to build on its strength in food production while expanding agro-processing, manufacturing, trade and other economic activities that can raise incomes, create jobs and increase its contribution to the national economy.

The assignment was outlined at the Songwe Dira Forum held on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, the first in a series of regional platforms through which the government plans to translate Tanzania's Development Vision 2050...