Kilimo

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 

1. agriculture sector contributes to the Council’s income through Tax collected from farmers in the market when selling simsim and cashew nut crops.
2. Agriculture ensures food security within a council.

Problems facing agriculture 

1. Unreliable rainfall
2. Lack of agriculture inputs
3. High prices of chemicals
4. Farmers do not follow agriculture officers’ directives e.g. good farming practices.
5. Poor use of agriculture inputs i.e farmers use seeds as food.
6. Unsustainability of agriculture projects.