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Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives

agriculture ministry of Tanzania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6866604 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives was a ministry of the Government of Tanzania. Under the first Magufuli Cabinet it was merged into the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

Mission

The three main objectives PR mission of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives of Tanzania is as follows:

Deliver quality agriculture and cooperative services.

Provide conducive environments to stake holders.

Build the capacity of local government authorities in order to facilitate and facilitate the private sector to contribute effectively for sustainable agricultural production and cooperative development.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives” as agriculture ministry of Tanzania. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 91-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ministry, Agriculture and Food can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as agriculture ministry of Tanzania. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6866604. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.