Country Profiles: Tanzania

Estimated population of rural poultry
Scavenging local chickens 26.6 million
Other poultry, mainly ducks 1.2 million
Source: Ministry of Agriculture 1995 National sample census of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Report

Institutes and organisations

• Ministry of Water and Livestock Development
  Animal Disease Research Institute (ADRI)
  Veterinary Investigations Centres
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Sokoine University of Agriculture
  Carries out training and research including undergraduate and postgraduate veterinary science and animal production.

Current projects

• “Production and testing of the Australian thermo stable Newcastle disease vaccine (I-2 strain) for protecting village chickens against virulent strains of Newcastle disease in rural areas of Tanzania”
  Tanzanian Agricultural Research Project Phase 2 (TARP II )

Chief Investigator
Dr A. M. Kapaga, ADRI,
Ministry of Water and Livestock Development
Email cvltemeke@twiga.com

Funded by the World Bank

• Tanzanian Agricultural Research Project Phase 2 (TARP II )
  “Improvement of health and productivity of rural chickens in
  Tanzania by controlling important diseases”

Project leader at Sokoine University of Agriculture
Professor Madundo Mtambo
Project personnel:
Dr Joram Buza
Dr Mmeta Yongolo
Dr Amandus Muhairwa
Dr Mkangare Minja
Professor Uswege Minga

Funded by the NORAD

• “Studies on seasonal changes in titre of Newcastle disease virus antibodies and relation with disease outbreak in Tanzanian village chickens”

Chief Investigator
Dr Joram Buza,
Email buzajj@yahoo.com

Funded by the International Foundation for Science

• "Assessment of the effectiveness of vaccination strategies against Newcastle disease and Gumboro disease using immunoassay-based technologies for increasing farmyard poultry production in Africa”

Research Agreement holder
Professor Uswege Minga,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Sokoine University of Agriculture,
PO Box 3019, Morogoro, Tanzania
Email Uminga@suanet.ac.tz

Research Contract Holder
Dr Halifa Msami, ADRI,
PO Box 9254,
Dar es Salaam Tanzania,
Email hmsami@hotmail.com

This project is a component of a coordinated research programme “Improvements of Health and Management of Family Poultry production in Africa” with twelve contract holders in Africa and funded by the joint FAO/IAEA Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

• “Improving the health and productivity of rural chickens in Africa”

Chief Investigator
Professor Uswege Minga,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Sokoine University of Agriculture,
PO Box 3019, Morogoro,
Tanzania
Email Uminga@suanet.ac.tz

Project personnel:
Dr Andalwisye Katule
Professor Madundo Mtambo
Dr Salome Mutayogba
Professor Malongo R. S. Mlozi
Professor Paul S. Gwakisa

Funded by DANIDA

Further contact persons
Dr Philemon Wambura On leave from Virology Department ADRI, currently undertaking postgraduate studies at the School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland Email p.wambura@mailbox.uq.edu.au

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