Dar es Salaam. Lack of capital, soaring production costs, the nature of the rocks, and a scarcity of donors are cited as factors contributing to the decline of Tanzanite production in the little hamlet of Mirerani in Simanjiro District, Manyara Region.
According to the report on the state of the 2022 national economy, tabled in June in Parliament in Dodoma, raw Tanzanite output last year was 90,186.9 kilogrammes, compared to 177,144.5 kilogrammes produced in 2021, representing a 49.1 percent reduction.
