promote, improve the production, 
productivity of Tanzania Cotton To promote the development of cotton industry To make regulations for cultivation, marketing, processing, importation, exportation and storage of seed cotton and cotton lint To assist directly or through financial support research and development and extension services. To promote the establishment of societies or associations of stakeholders and monitor their activities To regulate and control the quality of seed cotton and cotton lint

World Cotton Market

N.Y. Cotton FuturesCourtesy: Bremen Cotton Exchange

CDTF, Cotton Fund Scheme

Cotton Development Trust Fund
Tanzania Cotton Board - RADIO Program

Reports and Publications

Cotton from Tanzania
In recent years, Tanzania has become ideally suited for entering into…

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GLOBAL COTTON PRODUCTION TO DECLINE IN 2012/13
As a result, cotton area in many countries is expected to decline…

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Tanzania Cotton Board Annual Report 2010
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB)…

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Tecxtile Programmes

Large Producers of Textile and Apparel Industry


Spin

weave

knit

K-K-K

bed linen

blanket

bed nets

thread

clothes

made-up

Jobs

New Tabora Textiles

245

Jambo Spinning Mills

<150

Namera / Nida

>1 700

21st Century Textiles

1 300

Afritex

<1 000

New Mbeya Textiles

775

Mwanza Textiles

1 100

Urafiki (TZ-China Friend.)

1 200

Karibu Textile Mills

>600

African Pride Textile Mills

150

Sunflag Tanzania

<1 900

Morogoro Canvas Mills

1 300

21st Century Sisal

±400

A to Z Textile Mills

±7 500

Ellen Knitwear

<100

Kilimanjaro Blanket Corp.

100

Blanket & Textile Manu.

<100

Kibotrade

45

Mazava Fabric & Production

600

K-K-K = kanga, kitenge, kikoi                                                                                                   March 2010

For firm contact details contact the Tanzania Cotton Board’s Textile Sector Development Unit