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Tanzania Fertilizer Company Limited
TFC Vision
To be a leading Fertilizer provider with a wider customer coverage, strong
financial base highly motivated staff and prudent networking that focus on quality
services to the customers.
TFC Mission
Committed to providing quality and affordable products and services to its broad
based customers in the supply chain, through the utilization of dedicated and
knowledgeable human resources and modem technology available with high
degree of accuracy and promptness.
The Company History
Established in 1968, as fertilizer factory in Tanga in the1972.
In 1991 local fertilizer production at Tanga ceased, following the breakdown of
one of its plants, and it could not be restored.
The company which was Founded as a joint venture between the Government of
Tanzania being majority Shareholder and Germany Kloeckner Industrieanlagen
GmbH of Cologne hold Ing the minority party signed production in 1972 under the management or Kloeckner Industrieanlagen GmbH. But following the aging of
the plants the Germany company left TFC 1991 as the production came to a halt,
paving way for 100% ownership by the Government of Tanzania.
Until 1992, TFC had a Monopoly over all fertilizer procurement, distribution and
sales in the country. But jn 1992 fertilizer Trade was liberalized, leaving TFC's as
one of the players in the market though with reduced market shares. The
Liberalization oF the fertilizer trade was followed by the phasing out of the
subsidy scheme in 1994, which resulted in significant increases in the selling
fertilier prices on the other hand and the overall reduction of fertilizer
consumption in the country on the one hand. Quantities decreased from ever high
147,000 mt in 1991/1992, to a low 13,134 mt in 2000 for the company.
The decline oF market shares forced the company to also scale down its sizes,
both in terms of labour and sales centres, but still remain with the most extensive
distribution network than any of its competitors.
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