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= JATU PLC = JATU PLC is a Public Company Limited by shares with its Head Quarters located in Dar es salaam Tanzania. The principle activity of the company is to engage in marketing business applying network Marketing services, industrial activities undertakings and agriculture undertakings in different goods and services. The company has chosen agricultural and industrial activities as niche by connecting peasants and farmers in a network marketing methodology and enables them to farm collectively in groups by using modern and scientific technologies that goes with geographical and climate changes in the targeted areas.

Incorporation
JATU Plc which was officially registered on 20th October 2016. It first started as a small economical project under the Legal Protection and Life Improvement Organization (LPLIO) which was formed in 2015 with the aim of defending Human Rights and fighting against poverty within Tanzanian communities. In the beginning of 2016 JATU was established as a permanent project  for the LPLIO members and when this project started its operations, legal procedures required this project to be an independent business company and so this forced the project out of the LPLIO and registered itself as a Public Limited Company whose aim was to improve people’s health and eradicate poverty for the members who existed and for any other person who would be interested to join JATU.

The company was founded by a group of people with an initiative to support and implement the Government programme and vision of the nation on poverty alleviation to Tanzanians. The first sixteen members who formed and promoted the company were under the auspice of Peter Isare who is currently the CEO of JATU Plc.

Public listing
The company listed 2,164,349 shares at TZS 420 in the Dar es salaam Stock Exchange on 23rd Nov 2020 becoming the only Agri-based firm in the stock market.

Services

 * Agriculture - The company leads cooperative farming which allows its members to participate from where ever they might be. The crops which are being cultivated by the company are; maize, sunflower, rice, beans, oranges, orange fleshed sweet potatoes, avocados, bananas and vegetables
 * Industries - The company has established processing and packing industries of the crops right after harvest. The raw materials used in the industries are the harvests by the farmers who farm with the company, this is to say that the company provides sustainable market for all the harvests by JATU farmers.
 * Markets - After producing and packing these products, the company sells these products to its members through its platform of network market on the JATU MARKET App, the company also has supermarkets knows as JATU supermarkets which are currently located in Dar es salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, Dodoma, and Mtwara. The company also has agents who are available across the country and supply JATU products in their specific areas of operations.
 * Loans - JATU SACCOS is a subsidiary company established by JATU members which provides loans at no rates and affordable conditions to the JATU Farmers.