Editing Economy of Tanzania (section)

==Agriculture==
{{Main|Agriculture in Tanzania}}
[[File:Farmers in Igunga, Tanzania.jpg|thumb|right|Farmers clearing a rice field manually]]
The Tanzanian economy is heavily based on agriculture, which accounts for 28.7 percent of gross domestic product,<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 37}} provides 85 percent of exports,<ref name="factbook">{{cite web | author=Central Intelligence Agency | author-link=Central Intelligence Agency | publisher=[[The World Factbook]] | title=Tanzania | url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tanzania/ | year=2013 | access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref> and accounts for half of the employed workforce;<ref name="Abstract"/>{{rp|page 56}} The agricultural sector grew 4.3 percent in 2012, less than half of the [[Millennium Development Goal]] target of 10.8 percent.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/news/latest%20news/MAIR%202012_13(upload).pdf| title = "MKUKUTA Annual Implementation Report 2012/13", Tanzania Ministry of Finance, November 2013, page 11, accessed 1 November 2014| access-date = 10 December 2014| archive-date = 1 November 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141101230130/http://www.mof.go.tz/mofdocs/news/latest%20news/MAIR%202012_13(upload).pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> 16.4 percent of the land is [[Arable land|arable]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.ZS|title=Arable land (% of land area) &#124; Data|website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref> with 2.4 percent of the land planted with [[permanent crop]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CROP.ZS|title=Permanent cropland (% of land area) &#124; Data|website=data.worldbank.org}}</ref>

This strong dependence on agriculture, makes Tanzania's economy highly vulnerable to weather shocks and fluctuating commodity prices. 76% of Tanzania's population subsist thanks to agriculture and, due to the lack of knowledge and infrastructure to develop and implement some kind of agricultural technology, any droughts, floods, or temperature shocks can severely damage the living standards of those people and create huge increases in unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition rates, as well as, in really severe case, mortality rates due to starvation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/57152f5b110159cab78b7cf1/571a19be3d0cef000d19bce7/55e71b8316c53b119a8986ffbb526f38/Country_Report-Tanzania.pdf|title=Tanzania. Poverty Report.|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125062654/https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/57152f5b110159cab78b7cf1/571a19be3d0cef000d19bce7/55e71b8316c53b119a8986ffbb526f38/Country_Report-Tanzania.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Tanzania produced in 2018:

* 5.9 million tons of [[maize]];
* 5 million tons of [[cassava]] (12th largest producer in the world);
* 3.8 million tons of [[sweet potato]] (4th largest producer in the world, second only to China, Malawi and Nigeria);
* 3.4 million tons of [[banana]] (10th largest producer in the world, 13th adding [[Cooking banana|plantain]] production);
* 3 million tons of [[rice]];
* 3 million tons of [[sugarcane]];
* 1.7 million tons of [[potato]];
* 1.2 million tons of [[beans]] (6th largest producer in the world);
* 940 thousand tons of [[peanut]] (7th largest producer in the world);
* 930 thousand tons of [[sunflower seed]] (12th largest producer in the world);
* 808 thousand tons of [[sorghum]];
* 561 thousand tons of [[sesame seed]] (5th largest producer in the world, losing only to Sudan, Myanmar, India and Nigeria);
* 546 thousand tons of [[coconut]] (11th largest producer in the world);
* 454 thousand tons of [[mango]] (including [[mangosteen]] and [[guava]]);
* 389 thousand tons of [[pineapple]];
* 373 thousand tons of [[Orange (fruit)|orange]];
* 356 thousand tons of [[tomato]];
* 238 thousand tons of [[cotton]];
* 171 thousand tons of [[cashew nuts]] (6th largest producer in the world);

In addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products, like [[tobacco]] (107 thousand tons, 8th largest producer in the world), [[coffee]] (55 thousand tons), [[tea]] (36 thousand tons) and [[sisal]] (33 thousand tons).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC/| title = Tanzania production in 2018, by FAO}}</ref>