THE Southern Highlands Regions of Tanzania, the nation’s breadbasket, have invited domestic and foreign investors to explore untapped potentials and underutilised investment opportunities across a variety of industries in the area.
The Ruvuma, Njombe, Rukwa, Mbeya and Songwe regions make up the Southern Highlands, which share borders with Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
The largest urban area in the highlands is Mbeya.
In the highlands, there are investment opportunities in agriculture, tourism and hospitality, mining, livestock, forestry, education and factories.
Speaking during a virtual conference, Mwanamvua Mrindoko, the Katavi Regional Commissioner, said there is opportunity in the agricultural sector and they have set aside 112,425 acres of arable land that is ideal for food and industrial crop cultivation.
During the conference held by Watch Tanzania, the re- gional commissioners for Iringa, Mbeya, Katavi, and Rukwa highlighted achievements recorded in the sixth phase ad- ministration and promoted potential investment prospects in their areas.
Ms Mrindoko further said investors can also utilise cash crops like cotton, cashew, palm and sunflower that can be used as raw materials in industries, as well as food crops like maize, beans, rice, cassava and sweet potatoes.
“Because there are enough raw materials, there is also potential to invest in the sectors that produce livestock products like milk, skin and animal feed,” she added.
Ms Mrindoko added that they have designated space for an industrial park in which they would like water, juice, and construction materials enterprises to consider investing.
She said that because there is a facility that now processes cotton, there is also potential to invest in the cloth- ing industry.
The RC assured investors that there would be reliable water sources and a work- force capable of working in a variety of settings.
Regarding an achievement recorded during the sixth phase government, she said that they were
