Assessment Of The Financial Products And Services Extended To Smallholder Farmers

Undoubtedly, one of the major challenges facing smallholder farmers in Africa is the access to financial support to scale up their agricultural production and income. This challenge is also faced by rural farmers in Tanzania who make about 80 percent of the country’s population. As part of the efforts to provide solution on the issue of rural financing facing smallholder farmers in Tanzania, the government of Tanzania in partnership with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has created the Marketing Infrastructure Value Addition and Rural Finance Support (MIVARF) Programme to contribute to reduction of rural poverty and accelerate economic growth on a sustainable basis.