The sunflower sector initiative was implemented through a number of private business partners.4 RLDC provides grants through a challenge fund to seed producers for establishing sunflower seed farms and to improve the quality of the sunflower seeds.
Does Tanzania have a potential in the sunflower oil sector?
Tanzania has great potential in the sunflower oil seeds sector, which can be scaled-up as one of its key sectors for industrial development.
Which country produces sunflower oil?
Tanzania is one country among others in the world producing sunflower oilseeds for raw materials in processing cholesterol-free edible cooking oil with a by-product used as livestock feeds. Currently sunflower oil makes about 13% of the world edible oil production.
How much sunflower oil is produced a year?
While the production of sunflower oil seeds varying between 75,000 to 100,000 tons from year 2001 to 2005, it increased in the last two seasons dramatically to more than 350,000 tons since 2006 (Figure 1).