[2] Smaller portions of the Great Ruaha River Basin lie within Makete District.

Currently, the biggest challenges to be met by administration, are to improve the transportation infrastructure and provide better health care.

[6] Programs of numerous NGOs and faith-based organizations (FBOs) put special emphasis on combatting malnutrition.

Because of the temperate climate, wheat and potatoes are widely cultivated; they are often intercropped with pumpkin, Phaseolus beans and peas.

Because of the temperate climate, also fruit trees, such as plums, peaches, apples and pears, are being cropped in the district.

[8] While cattle are usually kept on communal grazing land, goats, pigs and poultry are reared close to the homesteads.

Inside the houses, a large proportion of the rural population also keeps domestic cavies (i.e., Guinea pig, Cavia porcellus) for meat production, although they are rarely mentioned in statistics.