Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators
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Category |
Supervising agency |
Executing agency |
Research focus |
Head count |
FTEs |
Year |
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Government |
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) |
Directorate of Research and Development (DRD) |
Crops, livestock, natural resources, socio-economics |
346 |
346.0 |
2000 |
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Tropical Pesticides Research Institute (TPRI) |
Pesticides |
36 |
36.0 |
2000 |
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Tse-Tse & Trypanosiomasis Research Institute (TTRI) |
Animal health |
7 |
7.0 |
2000 |
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Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism |
Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI) |
Forestry, natural resources |
21 |
21.0 |
2000 |
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Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI) |
Fisheries |
30 |
30.0 |
2000 |
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Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) |
Wildlife |
na |
na |
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Non-profit |
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Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TACRI) |
Coffee |
10 |
3.0 |
2000 |
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Tea Research Institute of Tanzania (TRIR) |
Tea |
11 |
9.0 |
2000 |
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Higher Education |
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) |
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Crops, livestock, animal health, natural resources, socio-economics |
243 |
72.9 |
2000 |
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University of Dar-es-Salaam |
Faculty of Science: Department of Botany |
Botany |
22 |
2.2 |
2000 |
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Faculty of Science: Department of Zoology and Marine Biology |
Zoology, fisheries |
28 |
8.4 |
2000 |
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Institute of Marine Service (IMS) |
Fisheries, natural resources |
17 |
1.7 |
2000 |
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Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA) |
Natural resources, socio-economics |
17 |
5.1 |
2000 |
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In February 2001, the government of Tanzania was restructured. At that time, DRD’s livestock research institutes were relocated under the newly established Ministry of Water and Livestock Development. Despite this, to-date, livestock research at the field level remains under DRD responsibility.
ASTI country brief on Tanzania, 2003 (PDF 193K)