The National Sample Census of Agriculture 2019/20 results show that, out of 12,007,839 households in Tanzania, 7,837,405 households (65.3 percent) were involved in agricultural activities. Of the total Agriculture households, 5,088,135 (64.9 percent) were involved in crops only, followed by 2,589,156 (33.0 percent) households engaged in crops and livestock whilst the least number of households were involved in fish farming and pastoralism jointly having less than one percent.
For Tanzania Mainland, a total of 7,657,185 households (65.7 percent) were involved in agricultural activities. Out of the total agriculture households, 4,972,373 (64.9 percent) were involved in crops only, followed by 2,526,846 households (33.0 percent) engaged in crops and livestock, 2.0 percent in livestock only, whilst the least number of households were involved in fish farming and pastoralism jointly having less than one percent.
In Tanzania Zanzibar, 180,220 (51.8 percent) were involved in agriculture activities. Out of the total agriculture households, 115,762 (64.2 percent) were involved in crops only, followed by 62,310 households (34.6 percent) engaged in crops and livestock whilst 2,149 (1.2 percent) were involved in livestock only
