Priority Setting
There are over 30 nationally coordinated research programmes whose test sites are widely distributed across the seven zones depending on agro-ecological opportunities and limitations. Each programme coordinator has a prime responsibility to ensure proper execution of all approved research projects. For each programme there is a national research coordinating committee which meets annually to scrutinize programme's progress of approved research projects conducted in the previous year and approve proposals for future projects. Besides, this meeting discusses the report and gives recommendations for any technology to be released to farmers.
Research programmes have been prioritized as follows:
Priority I Programmes
Coffee, cotton, tea, animal health/livestock diseases, ruminant meat/milk, soil & water management, agroforestry, farming systems research and agricultural economics
Priority II Programmes
Maize, roots & tubers, phaseolus beans, grain legumes, vegetables and oil seeds
Priority III Programmes
Sugarcane, cashew, sisal, sorghum/millets, coconuts, banana, pyrethrum, poutry, wheat/barley, tobacco, agricultural engineering and others.
Zonal priority setting was undertaken in 1994-95 to address the diversity of the commodities and agricultural practices in the various regions of Tanzania and problems associated with them.
Research in the DRD is undertaken by 358 research scientists, 550 technicians and 750 research support staff. Human resource training and development is one of the key components in the National Agricultural and Livestock Research Master Plan (NALRM). The main purpose is to achieve the necessary critical mass of research staff for all high priority research programmes.
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