Tanzania

Olam has established a significant presence in Tanzania across 7 locations, since starting operations here in 1994.

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We manage integrated supply chains for 5 main products: cashew, cotton, sesame, cocoa, and green coffee, employing 60 staff and more than 3,000 seasonal workers at peak season.

Our 2,000-hectare certified green Arabica coffee plantation is located in the Songea Rural District of Southern Tanzania along the Ruvuma River, and is managed to strict environmental and social standards by our AVIV Tanzania subsidiary. We are proud that Olam Aviv was the first agri-business globally and first business in Africa to have a site achieve the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard. Certified by Rainforest Alliance/UTZ and 4C, the plantation employs many people from the local community and has invested in social infrastructure.

In overseeing every stage of the supply chain across our products, from origination through to distribution, we add value for our customers and help them manage their risks more effectively.

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Ripe red coffee cherries growing on a bush, ready for harvesting, Guatemala, Olam.

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Children playing on a roundabout at the Aviv coffee plantation creche, Tanzania, Olam.

Crèche for Flourishing Minds

The crèche at Aviv coffee estate is hoping to make tremendous changes to the community. During peak season, Aviv employs a little over 1,000 casual workers on the estate overseeing an array of tasks. The majority of these workers are women from the neighbouring villages working in the nursery, weeding the fields, harvesting coffee and tending to pulped coffee in parchment. The children are provided with nourishment and a vibrant stimulating environment for them to flourish while their parents are at work. The crèche also includes a learning room with books and craft materials for at the children’s disposal, a playground outside to create a balanced and safe environment to nurture the young minds.

Meet the Team

We work with over 2000 people across 7 locations.

Aranyak Sanyal, Olam's Country Head of Ethiopia.

Aranyak Sanyal Country Head, Tanzania

News, Views and Insights

19^th Jan, 2021

Press release

Twenty Degrees launch brings specialty cacao to craft chocolate makers

London Today marks the launch of Twenty Degrees, a new specialty cacao business sourcing premium quality cacao beans from around the world. The new venture is backed by Olam Cocoa, one of the world’s leading suppliers of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients. The premium chocolate market has seen significant growth in recent years as consumers become more interested in the provenance of their food and increasingly seek out high quality, artisanal products with a unique flavour and story. Twenty Degrees – named for the cacao belt which ranges twenty degrees north and south of the equator – is responding by sourcing premium quality cacao beans from ten unique regions, each hand-picked for their distinctive flavour and sensory profile. The business will unlock opportunities for farmers by bringing single origin cacao beans to market that are either too specialist or too remote to be sold to mainstream manufacturers. From cacao grown in the highland Simbu region of Papua New Guinea, to bean

1^st Oct, 2020

News

Coffee kiosk gives Brazilian smallholders direct access to global markets

Olam is experimenting with technologies that reach remote coffee farmers and empower them to sell to the company directly, thereby giving them access to global market prices. Its first kiosk in Ibicocara - Brazil's Bahia region, allows farmers to drop off coffee samples and then Olam manages the testing and pricing negotiation via its digital platform, Olam Direct. The company has received more than 50 samples in July, its first month of operation, and farmer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Olam hopes to roll out the kiosks to serve additional farmers in 2021 and the locations may offer other value-add services for farmers and their communities. Edmilson Rocha Aguiar, who farms 140 miles away from the closest Olam facility in Vitoria da Conquista, was one of the first participants in the kiosk test.

18^th Dec, 2020

Blog

Digital Tech Empowers Ghanaian Cashew Farmer

Olam Direct purchasing app adds funds and cuts expenses. An estimated 5,400 Ghanaian smallholder farmers are receiving better prices on their 3,100 tons of cashew thanks to Olam’s direct purchasing app Olam Direct. The app also benefits customers by providing greater traceability for their purchasing. Developed in-house, Olam Direct is one part of a robust, proprietary solution which offers a variety of apps and tools to not only provide greater transparency on pricing, but access to agri-inputs and farming advice like better fertiliser use and insights on efficient land use to fight climate change. The app is empowering farmers to get prices directly from Olam rather than from the traditional buying agents, which yields not only higher prices for their cashew but cost savings on their expenses, as Olam manages “last mile” collection. This can have significant impact on farmers and their communities: if the average daily food budget for a typical Ghanaian household was is 14-15

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