The School of Agriculture (SOA) was formaly known as Kizimbani Agricultural Training Institute (KATI) before it was merged with the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) in July 2019. KATI was the sole semi-autonomous Agricultural Training Institute in Zanzibar operating under the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and fully registered by the NACTE. The institute was legally formed in 2007 by the Act No. 5 of 2007. However, its history dates back to 1930s when its predecessor the Kizimbani Research and Training Station was established with the main obligation of providing short-term training to farmers and field officers in Zanzibar. Then, the station was expanded in terms of scope to offer agricultural technical training at the Certificate and Diploma levels in 1998 and 2012 respectively. read more...
