Fahad Awadh is the founding father of YYTZ Agro-Processing, an export-focused cashew producer based mostly in Tanzania. Regardless of being one of many world’s main cashew growers, Tanzania exports 90% of its cashews in uncooked kind. German-born entrepreneur David Runge recognized a singular alternative in apple farming in East Africa. He invested in Tamu Tamu Tanzania, which describes itself because the area’s first industrial apple farm and nursery, positioned 540 km west of Dar es Salaam. The corporate has invested considerably in analysis and growth to domesticate apple varieties that may thrive in an equatorial local weather. Entrepreneur Ann-Elizabeth Swai based AKM Glitters, a poultry enterprise in Tanzania that operates on a franchise mannequin. Relatively than promoting rooster meat and eggs on to shoppers, Swai’s firm provides franchisees, or “brooder enterprises” as AKM Glitters calls them, with the inputs and technical assist wanted to run unbiased poultry operations.