August 2, 2025

AMDT To Support Over 28,000 Young Farmers To Venture Into Sunflower Agribusiness 

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IN A NUT SHELL 

👉   The Project Support Market Linkage Initiative For MSMEs By Organizing Local And International Business to Business (B2B) Networking Events, Matchmaking Services, And Industry-Specific Partnerships

 

👉 The Project’s Beneficiary Youth Farmers Comes From  Iringa, Morogoro, Manyara, Dodoma And Singida Regions.

 

DAR ES SALAAM. THE Agricultural Markets Development Trust (AMDT) is implementing a constructive project to empower the youth in five regions to tap diverse potential agribusiness opportunities available in the country’s sunflower sub-sector.

Under financial auspicious from AGRA, the ‘Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA)’, the twelve- months based initiative is working to impact at least 28,000 smallholder farmers directly, and a total of 152 youth-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in five regions.

The regions include Iringa, Morogoro, Manyara, Dodoma and Singida.

Briefing the publication over the timely development, AMDT Project Management ( Monitoring Results and Measurements), Mr Delta Shila said the project majors on capacity building towards the MSME on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Good Hygiene Practice (GHP), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), post-harvest management practices, edible oil processing skills as well as adherence to quality and standards as guided by the regulatory frameworks that governs the sector.

Mr Delta Shila 

He project focuses  to  facilitate the beneficiary youth and young women engaged that aspiring to be engaged in agribusiness to secure dignified and fulfilling employment opportunities in the sunflower sub sector.

Moreover, he informed that the project works to link young women and men SMEs to government initiatives such as innovation hubs and block farms (Building a Better Tomorrow program) which provides significant opportunities among youth, especially on land acquisition and financing support.

The project support market linkage initiative for MSMEs by organizing local and international Business to Business (B2B) networking events, matchmaking services, and industry-specific partnerships,” he added.

Speaking over the project’s key objectives, he expressed that it focuses to increase youth access to markets and employment opportunities, together with improving productivity, sustainability and resilience of Agri-enterprise, especially youth-led. 

“From this project, the targeted outcomes include expanding and diversifying inclusive markets and trade for youth and women run MSMEs,” he noted.

Other outcomes expected, according to him, is strengthened capacity of youth led SMES to participate in markets and trade, as we as improved enabling environment and compliance to quality and standards for regional and continental food trade.

 

“We’re also running the project for improving sustainable agricultural productivity for young farmers, particularly young women,” he insisted.

The Youth Empowerment and Employment through an Improved Sunflower Commodity (YES)- based project, he added, gears to see the young farmers are supported to access productivity enhancing technologies.

“We want to assure the young farmers are in better access to soil health and soil fertility management technologies,” he added.

Together with that, he said through the project, the youth, especially women are supported to provide agricultural services.

ABOUT AMDT

The Agricultural Markets Development Trust (AMDT) is a Tanzanian-owned trust established to support better coordination between value chain development initiatives, enhance and improve the understanding of agricultural market systems, improve productivity and market access for micro, small and medium enterprises, maximise the impact of programmes, and more effectively contribute to reducing poverty in Tanzania.

AMDT’s BENEFICIARIES 

AMDT’s target beneficiaries are the productive poor women, men, and youth involved in smallholder agricultural production (smallholder farmers) and in other agricultural on-farm and off-farm economic activities as employees earning a wage or self-employed.

The productive poor for AMDT are classified as those earning US$0.74/day (classified as being under severe poverty), through to those living under impoverishment, who occasionally live above the poverty line (US$1.25/day or national poverty line). 

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