Welcome to Fairshare Tanzania Limited
Fairshare Ltd is a non profit company promoting the growing and marketing of organic produce through partnership with subsistence farmers in Sumbawanga District of the Rukwa Region, Tanzania, East Africa. In Sumbawanga Fairshare is working with 600 farmers in Matai and Laela villages supporting the development of organic farming and in particular the growing of groundnuts (peanuts) both for export and home consumption.
Where Fairshare producers are located
Rukwa Region, situated on the shores of Lake Tanganyika is one of the most isolated and least populated regions in Tanzania, although it has the potential to be one of the biggest food producing regions in the country. It has a rainy season of 5-6 months. The people are mainly subsistence cultivators using the hoe to work their land and in better off households using oxen and plough. Main crops in Sumbawanga District are maize, beans, cassava, sunflower and groundnuts (peanuts). Development has been slow to come to Rukwa due to its remoteness and poor transport links.