The Zanzibar Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) is set to receive funding from the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) to support research on the challenges facing cloves, with an additional 30m/- allocated by the Zanzibar Planning Commission. The decline in clove production, which has decreased from over 30,000 tonnes to 8,736 tonnes in 2022, is a growing concern, despite government interventions such as distributing free seedlings and raising the buying price. COSTECH has also received 250,000 US dollars from development partners to support research at various higher learning institutions in the country, including ZARI, Sokoine Agricultural College (SUA), the University of Dodoma (UDOM), Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), and the Research Institute of Marine Life in Tanzania (TAFIRI).