ABSTRACT
This chapter develops an understanding of how intervention through business development support services affects the performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) engaging in agri-food processing and marketing. Generally, SMEs in a globalizing world have more or less similar characteristics as well as challenges, benefits, and opportunities. SMEs have proven to be the potential motor for economic growth in both the industrialized world and the developing world because of its great demonstration in dynamism and innovation. SMEs dominate the private sector in Tanzania, and they potentially employ large numbers of people in the country, especially in the agribusiness sector. The chapter contributes the understanding of the role of Business Development Services (BDS) intervention in supporting agribusiness SMEs in Tanzania. BDS providers are viewed as the main facilitators, whose role is to promote and develop skills, knowledge, and capacity of small firms. They identified types of service inputs they provide to SMEs and their way of approaching SMEs problems.
