According to the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010, the Kilimanjaro Region, which includes Moshi, had the second highest female literacy rate and the third highest male literacy rate among Tanzania's then-existing 26 regions. Like all of Tanzania, Moshi has universal primary education. ( February 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. KNCU handles between 50 and 70 percent of the coffee grown in the area and trades over 5,250 tons of Arabica coffee, or about 11 percent of national production. KNCU collects coffee from 96 village societies, representing over 150,000 small-scale farmers. Its purpose was to enable Chagga coffee growers to compete on equal terms in world markets with European growers. The Kilimanjaro Native Co-operative Union was established in 1929 by the district commissioner, Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas. Roman Catholic missionaries introduced Arabica coffee cultivation to the Moshi region in 1893. In addition, the Tanganyika Planting Company operates a very large sugar cane plantation and company town 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Moshi. The surrounding areas in Moshi district are known for extensive farms of maize and beans, grown once per year during the long rainy season (known as 'masika' in Kiswahili). Moshi's lower altitude and drier climate mean that the main crops grown on the higher slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, coffee and bananas, do not thrive there. There are several small and medium scale manufacturing facilities in dairy and food packaging sector. Just south of the city, there is a sugar production facility by TPC Ltd which owns one of the largest and oldest sugar cane plantation in the country.

Serengeti Breweries, an East African Breweries company, also has a manufacturing plant in Moshi. Moshi is the home to one of the three Coca-Cola bottlers in Tanzania, Bonite Botters Ltd.

Coming Event: 2019, June 7 – 9 (to be held in Arusha).

Venue(s): Ushirika Stadium in Moshi and Friedkin Recreation Center – TGT in Arusha.

Timing: At the beginning of June every year (from 2015).The fair will annually alternate between Moshi and Arusha starting 2018 event. The newly formed “Karibu/KiliFair” is expecting to host 350+ exhibitors from East and Central Africa, 300+ international hosted and semi-hosted buyers, as well as approximately 4000 trade visitors during the days of the fair. Recently, Karibu Fair (TATO) and Kilifair, both well-known tourism fairs decided to join into one and create by far the largest and most important Tourism Trade Fair in East Africa. The fair has the character of a business networking event for the tourism industry, in combination with a community fair to attract local people, families & expats. There is annual fair, KiliFair, organized to be an international tourism & industry fair, promoting and presenting companies based in the Kilimanjaro region. The city has several hotels and recreation centers. Tours can also be arranged from Moshi to other areas such as Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Arusha National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, and Tarangire National Park. There are also several waterfalls, natural springs, and tropical forests. The closest tourism spots include Kilimanjaro National Park, Mkomazi National Park, Lake Jipe, and Lake Chala. Moshi is one of tourism centers in the northern safari circuit of Tanzania. In the first half of the 20th century, Moshi was traditionally an important railway town, center of banana agriculture, and commercial producer of pyrethrum. Economy Īs the capital of the region, it is the center of government activities, trade, finance, and tourism. Moshi is administratively divided into 21 wards and then subdivided into 60 hamlets. In 1988, it became a municipality under Tanzanian law, but as of 31 October 2014, the process for submitting its application to become a city was in its final stages. Moshi attained the status of a town in 1956.

: page 101 The northern line railroad reached Moshi in 1912. Germany established a military camp in Moshi ( Neu-Moschi) in August 1893.

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