Talk:Morogoro

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Morogoro is the cannabis growing region drawn on Morogoro Region, in eastern Tanzania. It covers where cannabis is reported to be grown in the region and the operations against the farms there since 2006, at the scale each source gives. The growing areas inside it have their own pages, beginning with Mvomero. Tanzania's drug law and the national figures are treated at Tanzania. The administrative region would be Morogoro Region.

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Discussion

Why Morogoro is a growing region

• The Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA) reports cannabis farming and the farms it destroys by administrative region. Morogoro is among the leading regions in the minister's foreword to its report for 2016 (with eight others), in its report for 2017 (with seven others) and, by the DCEA's statement of November 2023, in its report for 2022 (one of five). A minister named it among six regions in 2019.
• The report for 2024 gives 1,165 acres of farms destroyed in Morogoro Region, second to Mara (3,045) of the eleven regions listed.
• The places the reports name lie across the region: the Uluguru Mountains in Mvomero and Kilombero districts (a newspaper report of 2006 cited by Magoti, 2023); Rumba and Mbakana villages in Morogoro Rural District (DCEA, 2023); the Mbakana, Misigiri and Mgeta rivers in Mikumi National Park, with villages in Morogoro Rural and Kilosa districts (The Guardian, 2024); the corridor between Mikumi and Nyerere national parks (2025); and Mvomero District (2026).
• No source read treats the region as one tract on the ground. It is drawn on the unit the DCEA reports by, and the article states each report at the scale it gives. Mvomero already had a page as a growing area and is the first area within the region.

How the border is drawn

• The border is a proxy built from an administrative unit, not from accession points: Morogoro Region as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relation 1600831), about 70,100 km², the figure in the infobox.
• Where Mvomero reaches the edge of the region, the region follows Mvomero's line. About 11 km² of land along those edges, where the line of the region and the line of the district differ, was left out of the region.
• Mikumi National Park, the Uluguru Mountains, Kisaki and Morogoro town fall inside the line.
• The infobox point (−7.92, 36.99) is the centre of the border polygon.

Growing status

The status is Active: the DCEA destroyed farms in Mvomero District in August 2026 and reported seizures of cannabis and seed in the region in July to September 2026. Its commissioner general said in 2026 that growers kept moving their plots; no source says that growing has stopped.

Sources

• DCEA annual reports (Taarifa ya Hali ya Dawa za Kulevya, in Swahili) for 2016, 2017, 2023 and 2024, read in the DCEA's PDFs; page numbers are the printed ones. The region list of 2016 is in the minister's foreword (Maelezo ya Waziri). The table of farms destroyed by region in 2024 is on p. 23. The report for 2025 gives a national total (3,512.25 acres) with no breakdown by region, so it is not cited here.
• DCEA statement of 1 November 2023 on the operation of eight days in Morogoro, Morogoro Rural and Mvomero districts; the commissioner general spoke on 2 August 2023. Its figure for the farms destroyed is 489 hekari (350 in Morogoro Rural, 139 in Mvomero). Hekari, like ekari, is the Swahili for acre, and the DCEA's own reports give farm areas in acres. The Daily News (2 August 2023), reporting the same operation in English, gives "about 500 hectares", "350 hectares" and "139 hectares". The article follows the DCEA's figures in acres.
• The Guardian (27 August 2024) and the Xinhua report carried by The EastAfrican (16 July 2025) are the reports cited. Media Wire Express (26 August 2024) carries the same statement as The Guardian and puts the farms "in the Mikumi National Park reserve area".
• Magoti (2023). Its list of regions with reported growing and operations "from the 1960s to 2020s" (p. 120) rests on the newspapers and parliamentary debates it cites; it gives no date for Morogoro alone, so the region carries no year of first growing. The 2006 figures (p. 121) and the court case (p. 126) are a newspaper's, given at second hand.
• DCEA statements of August and September 2026 were read on the DCEA's website.

Not used

• The DCEA's statement on environmental damage names the Udzungwa range with the Uluguru, Usambara and the Arumeru area. The Udzungwa Mountains lie partly in Morogoro Region, but the statement does not say which part, and it covers cannabis and khat farms together, so the article names only the Uluguru for this region.
• Lutambi (2025), a legal study, names Mvomero and Kilosa as districts where villages keep growing cannabis; its facts on the area come from the press reports above (see Talk:Mvomero).

Open questions

• Whether the river valleys at the edge of Mikumi National Park (Kisaki, Mbakana, the Mgeta) form a growing area of their own in Morogoro Rural District.
• Whether Kilombero and Kilosa districts, each named once, have enough reports to stand as areas.