President Samia To Grace Launching Of National Livestock Vaccination Strategy 

Expecting to gobble up to 216bn/-, the strategy is part of concerted efforts by the government to expand market for local meat abroad.

DODOMA. PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan is expecting to grace official launching of the national livestock vaccination strategy, the eagerly -awaited cattle tactic which focuses to bolster performance of the sector which currently contributes at least 6. 7 percent to the country’s Domestic Growth Product (DGP).

The launching has been drafted to take shape on June 16st, 2025 at the Nyakabindi grounds, Bariadi district in Simiyu region, according to the minister of livestock, Dr Ashantu Kijaji.

 Dr Kijaji said event for the launching of the five-year strategy (2024-2029) will be preceded by a special two-day national conference for the livestock keepers, to be graced by CCM’s secretary-general Dr. Emmanuel Nchimbi.

Expecting to gobble up to 216bn/-, the strategy is part of concerted efforts by the government to enable the country to penetrate and benefit from expanded meat markets abroad.

“Tanzania is endowed with vast richness of livestocks but we have been failing to benefit from the endowments due to prevalence of livestock diseases in the country,”

“Though this strategy, the government is targeting to expand meat exportation level to 30,000 tons by 2029, from the currently 14,000 tons, the development which will enable the sector to fetch a total of USD 152,287,305.2, being from the currently USD 51, 894, 622,” she expressed,” she detailed.

The minister informed that the strategy targets to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the livestock, added: “the first phase of the strategy will see a total of 19,097,223 cows across the country vaccinated against the contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP).

Together with that, she noted that the countrywide exercise will entail vaccination of at least 20, 900,000 goats and sheeps against the peste des petits ruminants (PPR), an acute or subacute viral disease of goats and sheep characterized by fever.

The vaccination will also take into account the poultry sector, whereby a total of 40,000,000 local chickens will receive a special vaccination against the virulent Newcastle Disease (ND).

During the 2024-25 fiscal year the government has set aside at least 28.1bn/- as a preliminary budget to support implementation of the first phase of the national vaccination strategy, according to her.

“To ensure for professional implementation of the strategy, the parent ministry has already set- up conducive roadmap, including procurement of a total of 700 motorcycle and 4,500 tailor -made gadgets, as well as other necessary such as gamboots, overalls, coolboxes, automatic syringes,” Minister Kijaji expressed.

And in the rolling out of the vaccinations, the minister noted, apart from the livestock officers within the local government authorities, the parent ministry will use the youths who have graduated from diverse livestock institutes in the country.

 In order to remove obstacles to livestock trade, especially in the trade of animals and their products in international markets Dr Kijaji said  the campaign will go in tandem with identification and registration of livestock by wearing electronic earrings, through which cows, goats and sheep will be identified in the coastal regions, Morogoro and Tanga and on the other hand, identification of goats and sheep will be held in the regions of Lindi and Mtwara.

Despite standing second in Africa for harboring larger livestock, it is a grim revelation that Tanzania failed to sell 882,182.8 tons of meat, with a total value of USD 3,705,167.76, equal to 9.3bn/- in China, South Africa, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Mauritius and Singapore due to prevalences of diseases in the sector, records at the parent ministry shows.

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