This is a list of sugar manufacturers in Tanzania[1] As of December 2017[update], the output and market share of each manufacturer is summarized in the table below:[8] In May 2017, The East African reported that annual production was at about 320,000 metric tonnes against domestic consumption of about 420,000 metric tonnes.
This created a national sugar deficit of 92,000 tonnes annually.
[12] As of December 2023, national sugar demand was estimated at 721,000 metric tonnes annually.
[13] At that time, national sugar production was estimated at to 380,000 tonnes annually.
This left an annual deficit of 240,000 metric tonnes of industrial sugar and 101,000 metric tonnes of brown table sugar (total of 341,000 metric tonnes), which was imported from Uganda, India, Brazil and Thailand.