Fresh Produce Export from Tanzania to Seychelles

Who We Supply in the Seychelles

The Seychelles imports the large majority of its fresh produce, and hotels, resort kitchens, supermarkets and wholesalers on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue need suppliers who can be relied on week after week, not just for a one-off shipment. TanzPro Greens works with importers, resort procurement teams and retail distributors who resupply the islands' hospitality and retail sector, and we structure our harvest and packing schedule around their delivery calendar rather than asking them to adapt to ours.

Because our farms are organised across two organic project sites in Mkuranga District and supported by a network of more than 50 contracted farmers, we can combine several smaller harvests into a single export-ready shipment without compromising on grading. That gives island buyers a level of volume security that a single small farm cannot offer on its own.

Product Range for the Island Market

Seychelles buyers come to us for a broad basket of vegetables and fruit grown across our Mitaranda and Kisele organic project sites in Mkuranga District. Our range is built around the items hotel kitchens and supermarkets order most often, alongside fresh herbs used across island hospitality menus.

Many resort chefs and supermarket buyers order a mixed pallet rather than a single crop, combining salad and stir-fry vegetables with fruit for breakfast buffets and juice bars in one shipment. Our packhouse is set up to consolidate that kind of mixed order without slowing down the grading and pre-cooling that keeps every item on the pallet at the same standard.

Availability shifts a little with the season, and we always confirm exact volumes and cut sizes with the buyer before a shipment is finalised, rather than promising a fixed list all year round.

• Cherry tomatoes and vine tomatoes
• Bell peppers, chillies and habanero
• Cucumbers, cabbage, carrots and onions
• Green beans and sweetcorn
• Avocado, pineapple and passion fruit
• Fresh herbs

Cold Chain and Logistics to Mahé

Every order to the Seychelles follows the same disciplined process from field to airport. Once an order is confirmed, our teams hand-harvest, sort and grade the produce within hours, then pre-cool it at our packhouse to slow ripening and hold quality before it ever leaves Mkuranga.

From there it is packed into food-grade export cartons and dispatched by air freight from Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam. Because the flight path to the Seychelles is short, produce picked at sunrise can be in a resort kitchen or supermarket chiller in Mahé within 24 to 48 hours, arriving with the freshness of a same-day harvest rather than a week-old shipment.

We plan dispatch around flight schedules out of Dar es Salaam so that a confirmed order has a fixed departure to work towards, rather than waiting for space to open up. That predictability matters as much to a resort's kitchen planning as the freshness of the produce itself, since chefs and store managers need to know when a delivery lands, not just that it eventually will.

Why Seychelles Buyers Choose TanzPro Greens

Island buyers operate with limited storage space and no room for a shipment that arrives inconsistent or under-graded. TanzPro Greens is built around organic cultivation, GMO-free produce and transparent grading, so what a buyer orders on paper is what actually arrives in the carton.

Beyond the produce itself, we operate on Fair Trade principles and support a workforce that is roughly 70 percent rural women, trained in organic cultivation and given certified seeds and a guaranteed market for what they grow. Buyers who care about where their food comes from get a supply chain they can stand behind, not just a product list.

• Organic cultivation under the East African Organic Mark (Kilimohai)
• 100% GMO-free, grown without synthetic fertilisers or chemical pesticides
• TOAM member, operating on Fair Trade principles
• Consistent volumes from a 50+ farmer network
• Transparent grading and food-grade export packing

From Trial Order to Regular Supply

Most new relationships with Seychelles buyers start with a trial shipment, a manageable order that lets a hotel, resort or supermarket judge quality, packing and delivery timing before committing to a standing schedule. We size that first order to the buyer's needs rather than pushing a minimum volume that does not fit their kitchen or store shelves.

Once a buyer is satisfied, we move to a regular weekly or fortnightly supply schedule built around their menu planning or shelf rotation. Producing more than 200 tons a year across our farms gives us the flexibility to scale a Seychelles order up as demand grows, without the guesswork of depending on a single grower or a single harvest.

That same scale means a seasonal spike, such as extra volume for a resort's high season or a supermarket's holiday promotion, does not require us to source outside our own contracted network. We would rather agree a realistic delivery date with a buyer than promise an order we cannot fill from our own farms.