Livestock keeping is the most important activity in the district. The Livestock which are kept by Community are cattle, goat, sheep and chicken. Dairy farming is becoming more prominent in Mkuranga division due to efforts made by (HPT) Heifer Project Tanzania who provided dairy cattle to farmers and in turn pay the assistance back by providing young cattle to others. Also this chain is done to provide dairy goats to farmers and vaccination. In turn the livestock production in five years has increase gradually as it shown in the table 3 below.
Table 3:Livestock production trend 2007 -2012 information
