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Meat export from Tanzania has significantly increased in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to the corresponding period in the preceding year. Growth is a whopping 65.6 percent, according to the Tanzania Meat Board (TMB). Statistics from the TMB show that revenue generation increased by 110 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.
Meat export from Tanzania has significantly increased in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to the corresponding period in the preceding year. Growth is a whopping 65.6 percent, according to the Tanzania Meat Board (TMB). Tanzania exported 4,577.5 tonnes of meat in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to 2,765 tonnes exported during the same period last year. Statistics from the TMB show that revenue generation increased by 110 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.
Revenue from the export increased to Sh57.3 billion in the first quarter of this year as compared to Sh27.3 billion garnered in the preceding year. The country has also managed to maintain and improve the value of meat export since last November 2022 when it broke the ice after exporting 1,423.012 tonnes up by 125 percent compared to 631,76 tonnes exported in the preceding month.
TMB data shows that the country has successfully maintained the country’s progress recorded last year when meat export rose during the FIFA World Cup finals held in Qatar. Tanzania’s main export destinations are Comoro, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
The report shows that goat meat is by far the leading export item after recording a whopping increase to 3,264.39 tonnes in the first quarter of 2023 as compared to 1,904.52 tonnes in 2022. The strategy aims at fattening cattle in order to increase exports after a report found that goat meat was on the lead with cattle meat trailing far behind. The private sector is intensively involved in strengthening the domestic meat market and increasing the quality of raw materials for both domestic and foreign markets. Official data from the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development show that until May 2022, the total number of cattle in Tanzania stood at 35.3 million.
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The country is home to a total of 25.6 million goats, similarly, the sheep population in the country stood at 8.8 million until the end of May 2022, while the number of local chickens amounted to 92.8 million.
