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Sunflower

Sunflower is on course to become a major commercial crop in Tanzania’s Central Corridor with many economic and health benefits for smallholder farmers. Readmore...

Cotton

For years, cotton has been a key cash crop for many Tanzanian farmers and an important agricultural export for the country. Due to its quality, especially organic cotton, demand for our cotton recently has been increasing locally and internationally. Readmore...

Dairy

Dairy is regarded as the sleeping giant in Tanzania agriculture sectors and for many years has been traditionally operated using low quality breeds and ineffective milk marketing.Readmore...

Radio

RLDC has identified radio as an ideal medium for dissemination of relevant information that targets rural producers and their communities. Readmore...

Poultry

Poultry keeping is traditionally the most popular activity in most of Tanzania’s households as a source of meat, eggs and extra income. Readmore...

Rice	Rice is Tanzania’s second most important food and commercial crop after maize providing employment, income and food security for many farming households. Readmore...

03 Oct,2011-New capitalisation of experience document
Lessons learnt from the facilitation of the rural radio programme INUKA ...New!

05 Sept,2011-Case study, Robert Shija, Rice farmer from Igunga
Mr Shija explains how the RLDC intervention has helped him increasing productivity and income ...New!

04 Oct,2011-Guardian article �Farmers� training result
The Guardian newspaper publishes an article about the partnership between RLDC and ASA ...New!

13 July,2011-RLDC Annual Report 2010
RLDC presents its Annual Report for the year 2010 ...New!

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The Rural Livelihood Development Programme (RLDP) is an initiative of the Government of Switzerland and supported through the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The main concern of RLDP is the high rural poverty in the Central Corridor of Tanzania which is manifested by very low incomes and frequent food shortages including lack of reliable/sustainable markets and employment. The programme aims at making market systems work better for the welfare of rural producers applying the ‘making markets for the poor’ approach (M4P). The programme is currently addressing market constraints in six sub-sectors, namely Cotton; Sunflower; Dairy; Rice; Poultry and Rural radio.

RLDP is jointly managed by two Swiss International NGOs, Intercooperation and Swisscontact. It is implemented through the Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC), a non-profit organization that has been established in 2005.

03 Oct,2011-New capitalisation of experience document
Lessons learnt from the facilitation of the rural radio programme INUKA ...