Warehouse receipts system generates Sh2.3 trillion for Tanzania farmers, traders
Tanzania's Warehouse Receipt System generated over Sh2.3 trillion for farmers and traders in the 2025/26 financial year. The system has improved transparency and income for farmers by reducing the influence of middlemen through digital auctions.
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Digital agricultural systems can significantly improve economic outcomes for smallholder farmers in developing nations.
Dodoma. Farmers and crop traders in Tanzania earned more than Sh2.3 trillion through the Warehouse Receipt System in the 2025/26 financial year, as the Warehouse Receipts Regulatory Board (WRRB) announced plans to expand the system to livestock and other products from the next financial year.
Speaking to journalists in Dodoma yesterday, WRRB Director General Asangye Bangu said the system had continued to improve farmers’ incomes, increase local government revenues and make crop trading more transparent through digital auctions.
He said in the 2025/26 financial year, a total of 1.122 billion kilogrammes of nine crops were traded through the Tanzania Mercantile Exchange (TMX), up from 781.7 million kilogrammes recorded the previous year, representing a 43.6 percent increase.
Farmers received Sh2.298 trillion from the sales, while local authorities collected more than Sh61 billion in crop levies. The total value of the traded crops reached Sh2.679 trillion.
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