Agriculture plays a large role in Lindi Municipality. About eighty percent of the people who live here earn their livelihood from agriculture.
Major crops
The major crops grown in Lindi Municipality are cassava, maize, millet, sorghum, and paddy crops (rice) grown as staple food crops, and cashew nuts, simsim oil seed and coconut are grown as cash crops.
Benefits of Agriculture in Lindi Municipality
agriculture sector contributes to the Council’s income through Tax collected from farmers in the market when selling simsim and cashew nut crops.
Agriculture ensures food security within a council.
Problems facing agriculture
Unreliable rainfall
Lack of agriculture inputs
High prices of chemicals
Farmers do not follow agriculture officers’ directives e.g. good farming practices.
Poor use of agriculture inputs i.e farmers use seeds as food.
