Tanzania Livestock Master Plan 2018.

The Tanzania Livestock Master Plan (LMP) was developed by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) with technical support from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as a roadmap to achieve the Tanzania Development Vision (TDV) 2025. One of the TDV’s goals is that by year 2025 there should be a livestock sector, which to a large extent shall be commercially run, modern and sustainable, using improved and highly productive livestock to ensure food security, improved income for households and the nation while conserving the environment. In recent years, the government of Tanzania has prioritized the transformation of the agricultural sector. This approach has been adopted in the 2007 Agricultural Sector Development Programme (ASDP) and its successor, the 2016 ASDP II (pag. 1).
The LMP sets out livestock-sector investment interventions—better genetics, feed and health services, and complementary policy support—which could help meet the ASDP II targets by improving productivity and total production in the key livestock value chains of poultry, pork, red meat, milk and dairy (pag. xvi).
The Livestock sector analysis (LSA) and LMP interventions, based on investment scenarios related to productivity-enhancing technologies and improved policies developed by the MLF, were tested in accordance national development objectives based on the following criteria: reducing poverty; achieving food security; contributing to economic growth; contributing to exports; and contributing to industrialization. Using measurable economic or environmental indicators for these objectives, four key livestock value chains— live animals and red meat and milk (from cattle, sheep, and goats), dairy with crossbred cows, poultry, pigs, and dairy—were identified in the LSA as producing the greatest productivity increases contributing to national economic development objectives and the long-term development of the sector (pags. xvi and xvii).