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Mvomero treats Mvomero District, in Morogoro Region, as a cannabis growing area, together with the river valleys and protected areas at its southern edge where the reports place the farms. It covers the operations against cannabis farms reported there since 2006. Tanzania's law on cannabis and the national figures are treated at Tanzania.

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Why Mvomero is a growing area

• The Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA), in a statement of 18 August 2026, reports the destruction of 603 acres of cannabis farms and 21 growers' camps in an operation in Mvomero District, in the villages of Misengele, Lugenge, Kisaki and Nyarutanga. The Daily News (17 August 2026) and The Guardian (18 August 2026) carry the same figures in English.
• The Guardian (27 August 2024) reports 1,165 acres destroyed along the Mbakana, Misigiri and Mgeta rivers, in villages it places in Morogoro Rural and Kilosa districts.
• The EastAfrican, carrying a Xinhua report (16 July 2025), gives 614 acres destroyed in the wildlife corridor between Mikumi and Nyerere national parks.
• Magoti (2023, p. 121) cites a report in Majira (15 November 2006) of about 1,000 acres destroyed around the Uluguru Mountains in Mvomero and Kilombero districts.
• The status is Active: every report above describes cannabis grown after 2000. The operations do not change it, since no source says that growing has ended there. The DCEA's own statement of 2026 says that growers keep moving their plots.

Extent and border

• No source read for this page maps the farms. The reports name villages, rivers and protected areas, and the DCEA names the district.
• The map border is approximate. It is drawn on Mvomero District as mapped in OpenStreetMap (about 6,600 km²), the unit the 2026 statement names. The infobox area is rounded from the border.
• The village names do not all fit that district. In OpenStreetMap, Kisaki and Nyarutanga lie a short way south of the district boundary, in Morogoro Rural District, and The Guardian (2024) also places Nyarutanga in Morogoro Rural. The 2026 statement places both in Mvomero District. Misengele and Lugenge could not be found on the map data used. Open map data has no ward or village boundaries here, so the border could not follow the villages more closely without taking in the whole of Morogoro Rural District, which is about twice the size of Mvomero.
• Mvomero town falls inside the border, as does the stretch of the Mgeta river mapped in the south of the district. Kisaki, Nyarutanga and Morogoro town fall outside.
• The 2024 operation and the corridor operation of 2025 are included because they describe the same stretch of country, between the Uluguru Mountains and the two national parks, where the 2026 villages lie. The page reports each at the place its source gives and does not move them into Mvomero District.

Sources

• DCEA, 18 August 2026. Read in Swahili on the DCEA's website. The English versions in the Daily News and The Guardian were read in full and agree on every figure; they are not cited separately. The Daily News and The Guardian give "bags", the DCEA magunia (sacks).
• The Guardian, 27 August 2024. Read in full. Media Wire Express (26 August 2024) carries the same statement and says the farms lay "in the Mikumi National Park reserve area"; The Guardian says "within Mikumi National Park". The page follows The Guardian.
• DCEA annual report for 2024. The table of farms destroyed by region (p. 23) gives 1,165 acres for Morogoro Region, the same figure as the August 2024 operation. The report names no district.
• DCEA, 29 September 2026. Says that cannabis remained the leading drug in production and seizures, especially in Morogoro and Tabora regions; it does not rank the regions themselves.
• Magoti (2023). Read in full. The 2006 figures are a newspaper's, given at second hand; the page attributes them.

Sources not used

• Lutambi (2025), a legal study in the Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, names Mvomero and Kilosa as districts where villages keep growing cannabis and recommends farm support for them. Its facts on the area come from the Guardian and Media Wire Express reports above, and it places Nyarutanga in Kilosa District, which neither report does. It is not cited.
• A Xinhua report of June 2020 on 100 hectares of cannabis found in Morogoro Region, cited by Lutambi, could not be retrieved.