Most of the people are farmers, but one of its most famous tribes, the Masai, raise cattle. It also has the tallest mountain in Africa-Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro is 19,340 feet high, and even though Tanzania is near the equator, it is always capped with snow. Lake Victoria is a fresh water lake and abounds with fish like perch and tilapia. Being mostly a farming country, Tanzania depends on the monsoon rains for good crops.
Women still do most of the farming.
They plant corn, cassava, beans and millet. All kinds of fruit trees abound. When the rains are late seeds dry up, and there is famine in the land. The baobab tree, outlined below, is sacred to Tanzanians because of its past history. It is against their law to cut down one of these sacred trees.