Existing Social and Economic Infrastructure
Roads
High ways :- No high ways
Regional Roads:
Sumbawanga - Mbeya (Tunduma)
Passable during the dry period and passable with many difficulties the rain season.
Districts Roads
Sumbawanga - Mpanda : Truck road
SUMBAWANGA - NKASI TRUCK ROAD: season
Rural roads
Seasonal and impassable during rainy season.
Power
Hydro - National Grid
Mbala (Zambia) - sumbawanga - Mpanda But still in construction
Thermo : general run by Tanesco (at Sumbawanga ) Mpanda and Nkasi
Communication:
STD: 255 - 00 Sumbawanga Town by (TTCL) Operator services available in all Districts Headquarters
No mobile phone
Radio: Radio ChemChem Sumbawanga Town
Radio Tanzania Service is availbel
Television : ITV Service available Sumbawanga
Newspaper: - Available after one day almost all newspaper except Daily News & Sunday News
Railways:
Services are provided by Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) of 210 Km rail line. Which linked Rukwa region and Tabora (From Mpanda to Tabora).
Air Services
Rukwa region has 4 small Air strips at Mpanda, Mishama, Inyonga And Sumbawanga, but this service was terminated in 1989. Since it was deemed in economic. Now it is only chartered aircraft that call to Sumbawanga air strip and the other strips too.
FINANCE
National Bank of Commerce NBC (1997) LTD
One Branch in Sumbawanga Town
National Micro finance Bank (NMB) Ltd
One branch in Mpanda District
Cooperative Rural Development Bank CRDB (1996) Ltd.
One in Sumbawanga town and one in Mpanda.
Tanzania Postal Bank Ltd.
Three branches i.e. Sumbawanga, Nkasi and Mpanda.
RANGO (NGO) FOR CREDIT FACILITIES (small loans)
Existing Industries
Leather Industries - NONE
Textile industries - NONE
Food Industry -
Processing - cereal canin
68 Sumbawanga }Private owned employment not
- 51 Mpanda } more than 35 people
- 35 Nkasi
Distillers - Oil mills
4 Sumbawanga } They privately owned and produce not more than 100 litres per day per
5 Mpanda } machine employment is under family lavel
Processing Cash crops - NONE
OTHER SALL SCALE INDUSTRIES
Bakeries : - 3 Sumbawanga } - They are privately owned and
2 Mpanda } produce bread for local consumption only
1 Nkasi }
Brick making - Available Sumbawanga, Mpanda and Nkasi it is done locally by private individuals who manufacture and burn bricks.
Foundry - Obtained in all Districts
- It is being undertaken by small local technician in terms of garage and metal.
Lumbering - Mpanda and Nkasi
- It is done manually through simple tools
Potential for expansion
1. - Food and Beverage - In all districts
- Milling Packaging - Sumbawanga and Nkasi
- Canin - Sumbawanga
- Honey/Bees wax - Mpanda
2. Hides and skins - In all District
- Average annual availability is 21.000 pcs
- Of skin from slaughtering center
3. Mining - Mpanda Districts - More than 1000 Kg per year
- Gemstone - All Districts
- Coal - Sumbawanga and Nkasi 18,000,000 ton
4. Lumbering - Mpanda and Nkasi
5. Ranching - Sumbawanga and Nkasi Cattle and goat which are available in large quantities
6. Agricultural sector - All types
7. Tourism - Katavi National park. Kasanga Bismac memorial reserve .
Serious setback to industrial development
- Infrastructure
- Low level of technology
- Availability
- Lack of financial institutions for financial cerdities
- Enter membership skills.