Irrigation Infrastructures Research Tender

Scope : To Construct Irrigation Infrastructures in Research Centre in Naliendele Mtwara, Tanzania

Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) has allocated 8bn/- in 2023/2024 financial year to build irrigation infrastructures in its research centre that will help in conducting research trials throughout the year.

So far the construction has started in the sense that a contractor has been obtained and contracts signed in the last fiscal year.

The contractor already started designing and is currently excavating dams and building water tanks including continuing the design work at all stations.

The project is for three years which will be completed in 2025/2026 and start working.

Their goal is to do a seed research trial as well as seed production throughout a year.

Set up of trial research is done during the rainy season.

The contractor is doing design and build where in the fiscal year 2022/2023 they allocated 17bn/- and this year they have allocated 8bn/- to develop the project.

As the institution’s role is to regulate, conduct, manage, promote and coordinate all agricultural research activities in the country, therefore through the irrigation infrastructure it will increase productivity in agriculture.

The station where the irrigation infrastructure is being built as TARI located in Naliendele Mtwara.

TARI aims at strengthening the national agricultural research system to enhance development and dissemination of Technologies, Innovations and Management Practices (TIMPs) to address the real needs of farmers and other agricultural stakeholders.