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Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania

Cereals and Other Produce Regulatory Authority

(COPRA)

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"Commercialization of the Tanzania’s Food systems to catalyze growth and resilience"

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FUNCTION OF COPRA

Specific functions of the Authority are:-

  1. Develop and enforce sustainable agronomical standards for product, processing and marketing of cereals and other produce.​​​​​​​
  2. Ensure fair competition, fair trade, and to set and monitor indicative prices as established by market forces.
  3. Collect, refine, maintain, or disseminate information or data relating to the cereals or other produce.
  4. License persons engaged in the marketing processing of cereals or other produces.
  5. Make regulations for cultivation, marketing, processing, importation, exportation and storage of cereals and other produce.
  6. Register growers, dealers and premise relating to cereals and other produce.
  7. Inspect or cause to be inspected the farms, grains, premises and other facilities for the cereals and other produce.
  8. Issue import and export permits for the cereals and other produce.
  9. Regulate or control the collection, movement, storage, sale, purchase, transportation, marketing, processing, distribution, importation, exportation, disposal and supply of cereal and other produces.
  10. Establish a system under which cereals and other produce trades shall register and report, for statistical purposes, information on the stocks handled or held by them.
  11. Advise the Minister on the proper production of cereals and other produce in relation to the needs of Tanzania and the extent to which control over the exportation and importation of cereals and other produces is desirable or necessary.