The Prime Minister argues that chronic malnutrition remains a public health problem in the country that needs a unified effort to ensure availability and access to food.

Adriano Maleiane was speaking on Monday, in Maputo, at the inauguration of the executive director of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition - SETSAN, Leonor Neves Mondlane.

For the success of the activity, the Prime Minister recommends that the director prioritize increasing the levels of agricultural and fishing production to improve the food and nutritional security of Mozambicans.

Adriano Maleiane exhorted the executive director of the Technical Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security to give the best of herself, in the management of that institution, to respond to the challenges that are imposed on them.

For her part, Leonor Neves Mondlane, agriculture technician, told journalists, after the inauguration, that the main challenge is to continue to work in line with the government's intentions.

The Technical Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security has, as of this Monday, a new executive director, an institution of multi-sectorial coordination of actions aimed at the continuous improvement of the food and nutritional security situation in the country.