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AUSTRALIAN beef genetics and staff will spearhead a $111 million vertically integrated meat production project in Tanzania.
The 5000ha broadacre farming operation is a joint venture between Australian agribusiness consultancy Snowy Mountains Limited and African-based Amboni Sisal Properties.
The Agri-Tanga project plans to convert 5000ha of farmland formerly used for sisal production, a plant used to produce rope and carpets, to a cropping and fodder operation with a feedlot for cattle, sheep and goats.
The new operation, near the coastal town of Pangani, plans to have a 25,000 head capacity feedlot and will aim to turn off 100,000 cattle annually, and produce 17,500 tonnes of beef for domestic and live export markets.
A halal-certified abattoir with the capacity to process 300 cattle a day will be built at the nearby city Dar es Salaam.
A wholesale supermarket will service stores, hotels, restaurants and meat retailers.
Seventeen centre irrigation pivots fed by ground and surface water will produce maize, sorghum and lucerne crops to supply the feedlot and manure from the feedlot will be composted and used on the cropping areas.
Tanzania has the third- largest livestock population in Africa, with about 25 million cattle, 98 per cent of which are indigenous breeds, and are largely run by nomadic farmers.
Its beef industry is constrained by low fertility rates, high mortality and disease. And only 2 per cent of beef produced in Tanzania is processed, with the rest live to consumers at local markets.
Snowy Mountains Ltd consultant and Bullioh beef producer Bruce Campbell said the Agri-Tanga project would employ almost 350 staff, with 300 of those being local jobs.
Mr Campbell said the grain and feedlot infrastructure would be built over a two-year period. Australians with feedlot nutrition and management, cropping, abattoir management and heavy machinery maintenance skills would be recruited as the project progressed.
Snowy Mountains Ltd is an consortium of farmers with backgrounds in broadacre farming, livestock management and cattle breeding.
Its spokesman Robert Holst said Tanzania presented an excellent opportunity, but Snowy was yet to secure full funding for the project.
“We think Tanzania is a great place to start. The African continent will grow its population from one billion to two billion people in less than 40 years,” Mr Holst said.
The administration and operations team also includes Brian McDonald, Robert Holst, Gary Harnett, Roger Burns, Keith Hollamby and Hassan Sheeqey Mohamed.
The 5000ha broadacre farming operation is a joint venture between Australian agribusiness consultancy Snowy Mountains Limited and African-based Amboni Sisal Properties.
The Agri-Tanga project plans to convert 5000ha of farmland formerly used for sisal production, a plant used to produce rope and carpets, to a cropping and fodder operation with a feedlot for cattle, sheep and goats.
The new operation, near the coastal town of Pangani, plans to have a 25,000 head capacity feedlot and will aim to turn off 100,000 cattle annually, and produce 17,500 tonnes of beef for domestic and live export markets.
A halal-certified abattoir with the capacity to process 300 cattle a day will be built at the nearby city Dar es Salaam.
A wholesale supermarket will service stores, hotels, restaurants and meat retailers.
Seventeen centre irrigation pivots fed by ground and surface water will produce maize, sorghum and lucerne crops to supply the feedlot and manure from the feedlot will be composted and used on the cropping areas.
Tanzania has the third- largest livestock population in Africa, with about 25 million cattle, 98 per cent of which are indigenous breeds, and are largely run by nomadic farmers.
Its beef industry is constrained by low fertility rates, high mortality and disease. And only 2 per cent of beef produced in Tanzania is processed, with the rest live to consumers at local markets.
Snowy Mountains Ltd consultant and Bullioh beef producer Bruce Campbell said the Agri-Tanga project would employ almost 350 staff, with 300 of those being local jobs.
Mr Campbell said the grain and feedlot infrastructure would be built over a two-year period. Australians with feedlot nutrition and management, cropping, abattoir management and heavy machinery maintenance skills would be recruited as the project progressed.
Snowy Mountains Ltd is an consortium of farmers with backgrounds in broadacre farming, livestock management and cattle breeding.
Its spokesman Robert Holst said Tanzania presented an excellent opportunity, but Snowy was yet to secure full funding for the project.
“We think Tanzania is a great place to start. The African continent will grow its population from one billion to two billion people in less than 40 years,” Mr Holst said.
The administration and operations team also includes Brian McDonald, Robert Holst, Gary Harnett, Roger Burns, Keith Hollamby and Hassan Sheeqey Mohamed.
