The Agriculture and Fisheries sector, in Zambezia province, needs a little over eight million meticais to restore fish production, whose infrastructure was destroyed last January by the tropical depression Ana.

Meanwhile, a medium-sized feed production plant will be built this year, in the Milange district, aiming to boost the captive fish production subsector.

After its construction, the factory will be adjudicated to private management aiming at its sustainability. With the construction of the factory, the executive intends to minimize the feed shortage.

The head of the Aquaculture sub-sector in Zambezia, Amândio Mandara, said a few days ago, in an interview to the newspaper Notícias, that the losses in the sub-sector are enormous, after an investment of more than 11 million meticais made by the government and partners in aquaculture production.

According to the source, the tropical depression destroyed more than 126 fish ponds, which represented losses in the order of sixty-three tons of miscellaneous fish.

He also said that the storm also destroyed two fish production systems in floating cages in the districts of Mopeia and Mocuba.

Zambézia province currently has two thousand fish ponds and more than 1650 aquaculturists.