The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, predicts that one million households will overcome the food poverty line by 2025, as a result of the implementation of the SUSTENTA program. The minister, who was speaking yesterday at the Portuguese Parliament, assures that the program will improve food security, job creation, social inclusion and...
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Celso Correia - "Five million Mozambicans are free of food insecurity thanks to the Sustenta program"
About five million Mozambicans have been freed from food insecurity in the country since the beginning of the Sustenta program, five years ago, through the financing of agricultural projects, with direct results in increasing agricultural production and productivity. Indeed, the number of people in this condition has dropped from 12.3 million in 2020 to about...
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Exports of agricultural products grew in the first semester
An exponential evolution of agricultural exports was registered from 183 million dollars in 2021 to 310 million dollars for the same period in 2022, Filimão Suaze, spokesman of the Council of Ministers, told the media moments after a session of the body in Maputo. The spokesman said that among the main crops that recorded a...
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Mozambique increases production of certified seeds
Mozambique has increased production of certified seeds by 18% in the 2021-2022 agricultural campaign reaching 12,000 tons against just over 10,000 tons in the previous campaign, said Tuesday the government spokesman. Speaking at the usual briefing after the Council of Ministers meeting, Filimão Suaze said that this increase in...
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10 million Euros available for Sustenta Fruticultura program
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER), in partnership with the Austrian Cooperation, will apply this year, 10 million Euros for materialization of the project of technology transfer, under the program Sustenta Fruticultura, whose launching took place a few days ago, in the district of Macate, in the province of Manica. The objective is to develop the...
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Reduction of Sustenta funding could jeopardize global production in Gaza
The reduction of funding to Gaza province, under the Sustenta program, may contract the overall production by 2.28% in the current fiscal year compared to last year. Data presented last week in the VII Ordinary Session of the Provincial Assembly show that the global production for 2022 is estimated in 62.044,76 million meticais,...
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Ministry of Agriculture monitors re-launching of agricultural activity in Cabo Delgado
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) is monitoring the resumption of agricultural activity in the resettlement centers of displaced people, and in some districts of Cabo Delgado province, affected by the terrorist attacks, under the emergency window of the Sustenta program. Just over 400,000 displaced families have received some 79,601...
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Mozambique records production surplus - Rede Fews
The Famine Early Warning Network (Fews Network) says that Mozambique contains surplus production in existing barns and is available in local markets. The Fews Network report, "Mozambique Food Security Outlook" comes at a time when the start of a new agricultural campaign is just around the corner, and reveals that currently the risk...
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Manica's entrepreneurship is ready to explore the opportunities within the framework of Sustenta
The Entrepreneurship of Manica province is ready to capitalize on the opportunities available under the Sustainable Development Program (SSEP).
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Sustenta Program in Cabo Delgado will finance 17 thousand commercial producers
About 17 thousand new emerging small commercial producers are going to be financed for the agrarian campaign 2021/2022, through the direct fomentation of several crops, by means of technological packages, in Cabo Delgado province