Tanzania has achieved sustained rates of economic growth for the past ten years and is moving towards middle income status. Maintaining these gains while ensuring that development is inclusive is a core objective of the second National Five-Year Development Plan which places industrialisation as the key pillar of national development strategy. Capturing value through agro-processing, manufacturing for regional markets and harnessing the potential of the natural resources with which the country is richly endowed are envisaged as drivers of accelerated economic transformation.