Abstract
A review of soil surveys shows that Tanzania has a long history of collecting soils and other land resources data. A number of inventories at different scales have been made for various land use planning objectives. The inventories at national scale are not sufficiently adequate for sound planning exercises and require further improvement. Moreover, only about 3% of the country has been mapped at detailed and semi-detailed scales to allow proper planning at village and farm level. Handling of basic soils and other land resources data are still to a great extent done manually and only a modest computerization has been done. To have a rational utilization of the country's soils and other land resources, the government is urged to deliberately invest more efforts and finances to systematically map and characterize the resources.
