The Potato Council of Tanzania is the unifying voice of the nation's potato value chain — connecting smallholder farmers across Tanzania's four AGCOT corridors — Southern, Northern, Central and Mtwara — to processors, exporters, urban kitchens, and the millions of plates of Chipsi Mayai served every day.
Chipsi Mayai — the potato omelette born in the food stalls of Dar es Salaam in the 1980s — is now Tanzania's unofficial national dish. Every plate is a quiet handshake between a smallholder in Mbeya and a city worker on Samora Avenue.Why we are called Chipsmayai
From the seed lab to the supermarket shelf — the Council works across every link of the value chain, with a single goal: to make Tanzanian potato farming resilient, profitable, and sustainable.
Shepherding the National Round Potato Development Strategy through final stakeholder validation — Tanzania's first comprehensive policy framework for the sector.
Tanzania's official voice in the Jumuiya Potato Platform — harmonising EAC seed regulations and unlocking export corridors to Kenya, Comoros, Zanzibar, and beyond.
Mkulima kwa Mkulima — peer-to-peer extension that has lifted yields from 3.2 to 15 MT per acre in priority clusters across the Southern Highlands.
Connecting input suppliers, seed multipliers, smallholders, traders, processors, exporters, and financiers into functional, profitable networks.
Building seed certification, grading, and traceability — ending the lumbesa system and turning Tanzanian potatoes into a premium regional brand.
Drought-tolerant varieties, drip irrigation, soil conservation — preparing the sector for a future where the rains are no longer predictable.
On 27 April 2025, SAGCOT was expanded into a nationwide platform — the Agricultural Growth Corridors of Tanzania (AGCOT). The change was structural, not cosmetic. The PCT now operates as the cross-corridor coordinator for the potato sector, ensuring no producing region is left outside the national conversation.
Iringa · Mbeya · Njombe · Songwe · Rukwa · Ruvuma · Morogoro
Arusha · Kilimanjaro · Manyara · Tanga
Dodoma · Singida · Tabora · Shinyanga
Mtwara · Lindi · Pwani (Coast)
The Council operates within four converging policy frameworks — together giving the potato sector unprecedented certainty and capital commitment.
One priority crop per Agro-Ecological Zone — potatoes prioritised across five zones.
10% annual agricultural growth target — driven by inputs, irrigation, and mechanisation.
TZS 10 trillion NAGITA programme — cold-chain, agro-logistics, feeder roads.
USD 100 billion harvest — Tanzania as Africa's breadbasket.
Sector reports, field activity, and stories from the cluster meetings. Updated continuously by the Council editorial team.
For the first time ever in Sub-Saharan Africa, the 13th World Potato Congress convenes in Naivasha, Kenya — bringing together 1,000+ delegates from 60+ countries. As a neighbouring nation and one of Africa's leading potato producers, Tanzania's role is to participate fully: sending a strong delegation across all four AGCOT corridors, ready to do business with the global potato community gathered an hour from our northern border.
Join the Tanzanian delegation →Smallholder cooperatives, seed multipliers, processors, exporters, financiers, agro-input firms, regulators, researchers — all under one roof, working from the same vision.
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