Dar es Salaam, April 30 -- DODOMA: TANZANIAS cooperative system has significantly improved over the past four years, with cooperative societies managing to collect a total of 2.23 million tonnes of agricultural produce worth 4.2tri/- as of February 2025.

A report by the Tanzania Cooperative Development Commission (TCDC) detailing the sectors achievements under President Samia Suluhu Hassans leadership reveals that the co-ops capacity has quadrupled since the 2021/2022 financial year, when they collected just 591,268.122 tonnes valued at 1.1tri/-.

“The increase in sales through these formal cooperative systems has led to a rise in both the volume of produce sold and the prices of crops,” the report says.

The report, made ava...