Nampula province sold more than 94,000 tons of cashew nuts during the 2024/2025 campaign, out of a target of 82,000 tons. According to a publication by Rádio Moçambique, which quotes the spokesman for the Provincial Council of State Representation Services in Nampula, Graciano Francisco, of this volume, around...
New partnership brings digital payments to agribusiness in Niassa
Last Thursday (13), Vodafone M-Pesa and Sociedade Algodoeira do Niassa, a company belonging to the João Ferreira dos Santos group (JFS), signed an agreement aimed at providing digital financial solutions to facilitate business for farmers and rural communities. During the first year, the new partnership will benefit a total of 500 farmers who, according to the terms...
Mozambique plans to increase macadamia exports to the Chinese market
Mozambique wants to increase exports of macadamia nuts, an emerging crop with high commercial value on the Chinese market. To this end, the national authorities have established a protocol with the People's Republic of China, valid for three years and renewable, with the aim of facilitating the entry of this product into that Asian country, free of customs duties. According to...
Moza Banco strengthens commitment to national agricultural exports
Moza Banco wants to continue to strengthen its belief in the country's agricultural potential, especially in terms of export capacity. In pursuit of this objective, the Bank took part in the Workshop on International Trade and Access to Financing for Exports in Maputo a few days ago. The workshop was organized by ExportaMoz, an entity dedicated to promoting...
Ukrainian businessmen seek cooperation in Mozambique in the agriculture and mining sectors
A group of Ukrainian businesspeople has traveled to Mozambique to try to identify business opportunities and partnerships with Mozambican businesspeople in the areas of Agriculture, Energy, Information and Communication Technologies and Mining. The information was provided last Friday (14), in Maputo, by the member of the Natural Resources and Energy Department and the Mining sector at the...
Gaza: Libyan investors plan to set up a rice production and processing plant
A new rice production and processing unit is on the horizon in southern Mozambique, as part of an initiative by Libyan investors, namely Libya Africa Investment Portfolio. According to a publication by Rádio Moçambique, the group initially intends to create and install the cereal cultivation and processing unit in Gaza province, with the prospect of...
Macadamia production already reaches five thousand tons in Mozambique
Macadamia cultivation, a crop with high commercial value on the international market, has seen remarkable growth in recent years, reaching a harvest of 5,000 tons in the 2023/24 crop year, with good prospects for the current harvest. According to the National Almond Institute, quoted by the newspaper Notícias, in global terms...
Sofala records historic drop in cotton production
Sofala province, one of the country's main cotton producers, has seen a sharp drop in production of this commodity, ending the 2023/24 season with one of the worst yields in recent history. According to data released last week during a session of the State Representation Council at the level of this...
Maputo: President of the Republic launches 2024-25 agricultural campaign today
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, will today, Friday (08), at the Xinavane Administrative Post, Manhiça district, Maputo province, launch the 2024-25 agricultural campaign. The event aims to promote the role of the agrarian sector in the country's socio-economic development and will also serve to evaluate the performance of the previous campaign. On the occasion, according to a...
Foot-and-mouth disease forces restriction on cattle movements in Gaza province
The national veterinary authorities have just recommended restricting the movement of cattle in the Massingir district in order to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease. The measure follows the discovery of an outbreak of this lethal disease in the Administrative Post of Zulo, where the authorities have already taken samples to...