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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
Next week, the government will organize a special session to announce the results of the SUSTENTA project, the main program that was being developed to boost the agricultural sector. Initially launched in 2017 with the aim of integrating small farmers into agricultural production value chains, SUSTENTA was the government's flagship...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) recommends delaying the start of sowing for the first agricultural season of the 2024-25 period in the north of the country to avoid the risk of low productivity due to the lack of rain in the forecast. In a publication in Revista Terra, the representative of the National Directorate for Family Farming, Hiten...
The province of Gaza, in southern Mozambique, produced around 25,000 tons of rice in the first half of this year across the entire area covered by irrigation systems. The figures were released on Wednesday (28) by Iválio Mahumane, spokesman for the Directorate of Productivity and Trade of Gaza province, at FACIM, who stressed...
Hollard-Agri, an innovative micro-insurance initiative by Hollard Mozambique, has created a significant impact on the lives of 16,000 small farmers affected by drought in the provinces of Manica, Sofala and Tete, respectively. Launched around a year ago, this micro-insurance is providing essential cover to small farmers on the basis of...