Welcome to National Food Reserve Agency NFRA's Website, NFRA is a Public Institution established as an Executive Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture . The Agency established for the purpose of guaranteeing national food security in times of food shortage. Thus the Agency has been established to carry out three main functions. There are; -

• Procuring, reserving and releasing food stocks to address disasters
• Recycling and releasing food stocks in the market in order to stabilize food supply, and
• Marketing food commodities and generating revenue.

Therefore, the main role of the Agency is to procure food stocks, reserve, recycle and respond timely to food shortages in the country. Since its establishment the Agency has been successfully performing obligations by ensuring times procurement of grains from farmers and responding timely to food shortages in the country. NFRA has been a last resort to most farmers during grain procurement season. Furthermore, the Agency succeeded to reserve grain for number of years while observing quality standards which makes Tanzanian to enjoy quality food releasing by NFRA. It is the reverse were consumers within the country and outside the country can find grain with guaranteed quality.

NFRA developed Strategic Plan which is operationalised by Business plan for a year after year execution. The Agency Plans explore an intention to increasing the reserve capacity of food stock up to 1,000,000 MT by 2030 by expanding and introducing use of modern storage facilities and technology. Expected growth in reserve will enable the Agency to increase level of reserved stock toward attaining national optimum food requirement and improving operational efficiently.

To efficiently implement the plan, I call upon all stakeholders to cooperate with the Agency while carrying out its day to day activities to enable NFRA to provide quality services to the public. In addition to that, I wish to urge all NFRA staff, management and stakeholders to fully commit themselves to the implementation of this annual plan.

 

Mr. Daniel A. Kajumulo

Chief Executive Officer SGR (1991-1999)