College of Agricultural Sciences and Food Technology
CoAF is a vibrant and innovative institution dedicated to achieving "Enhanced quality outputs in teaching, research, and public services.
The College was founded to address key challenges in the agricultural and fisheries sector, focusing on:
- Inadequate value addition in agricultural and fisheries produce.
- Inadequate adherence to grades, standards, and quality in agricultural fisheries products marketing.
- Weak institutional set-up for dealing with agricultural and fisheries marketing.
- Limited use of marketing risk management approaches.
- Inadequate capacities to utilize opportunities in domestic, regional, and international markets, including preferential markets.
- Low-yielding livestock due to poor breeds.
CoAF operates from both the Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere Mlimani Campus and Kunduchi Campus. Training in the College emphasizes postharvest technologies, processing, value addition, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and innovations in agro and aqua-technologies.
Graduates are equipped in various fields:
- Irrigation engineering.
- Agricultural mechanization.
- Climate change studies.
- Urban and peri-urban agriculture including horticulture.
- Post-harvest technologies, agro-processing, value addition, and marketing of dairy, poultry, meat, seafood, cereals, fruits, and vegetables.
- Quality seed and feed technologies.
- Agricultural Bioengineering.
- Fisheries Technologies.
- Aqua-farming.
- Beekeeping sciences and technologies.