Since 2007, through the Tanzania Agrodealer Strengthening Program (TASP) and the Agrodealer Training Program (ADT), CNFA has been developing a strong network of agrodealers to improve the rural economy, increase agricultural yields and productivity, and improve household food security in Tanzania.

Tanzania Agrodealer Strengthening Program

Launched in 2007, the Tanzania Agrodealer Strengthening Program, funded by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, has been highly successful in building and supporting a vibrant agrodealer network capable of serving smallholder farmer demands for improved inputs, services and marketing. Like CNFA’s other agrodealer development programs, TASP has focused on business and technical training and capacity building, facilitating access to financial services, output marketing, processing and value adding services, and policy advocacy through association development. TASP has also designed and supported the Tanzanian government’s targeted subsidy program to link agrodealers to the local seed industry and have been scaled up to foster development of a nationwide rural market network. TASP was expanded into new districts in 2010, allowing CNFA to improve productivity and incomes for more than 360,000 additional farm households in remote and underserved areas. Since 2007, TASP has certified over 2,600 agrodealers, who are providing products and services to over 1.5 million smallholder farmers and improving the lives of nearly 8 million people.

Agrodealer Training Program

Through an award from the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC), CNFA is improving incomes and food security for 580,000 of Tanzania's most vulnerable smallholder farmers. The program, called the Agrodealer Training Program (ADT), is funded by MAFC through the World Bank's Accelerated Food Security Project. ADT builds on CNFA's strong record in Africa and specifically in Tanzania, both through USAID's Farmer-to-Farmer Program and AGRA's Tanzania Agrodealer Strengthening Program. Operating in 39 districts, ADT will train and certify 50 commercial trainers and 1,025 agrodealers in business management and technical skills, conduct agrodealer business clinics, establish 140 demand creation demonstration plots and associated farmer field days, and promote the development of nine district-level agrodealer associations. Through ADT, an additional 580,000 smallholder farmers will gain access to improved products, services and marketing.