A multi-sectoral working group, which includes the Mozambican Association of Banks (AMB), Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC), Bank of Mozambique (BM), Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) launched yesterday in Maputo the platform for Inter-sectoral Coordination of Mechanisms...
WHO "attacks Mozambique" for growing tobacco while population starves
The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that Mozambique is one of the countries in the world that uses the most extensive hectares of land for the cultivation of tobacco while its population goes hungry. Mozambique, with a cultivated area of 91,469 hectares is third in the African region, after Zimbabwe (112,770...
Prime Minister defends greater connection between agricultural production centers and markets
The Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, defended yesterday, during the ceremony of taking over the general director of the Mozambique Cereals Institute (ICM), Alfredo da Piedade Nampuio, replacing Momed Valá, the establishment of a bigger link between the production centers and the markets, through the promotion of commercialization of the agricultural production surplus. For Adriano
WHO: Mozambique is the world's eighth largest tobacco producer
A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) released today revealed that Brazil has the third largest tobacco growing area in the world and Mozambique the eighth. According to the WHO report, on the pretext of the World No Tobacco Day, which is celebrated on May 31, with 357,230 hectares, Brazil leads...
AfDB warns that Africa's agricultural trade deficit worsens in 2022
The African Development Bank (AfDB) revealed today in a report that Africa's agricultural trade deficit has worsened to more than 36 billion euros by 2022, the level of 2015. The report also points out that the number of people suffering hunger or malnutrition rose to 256 million last year. The document presented...
Panama fungus threatens banana production and food security in Mozambique and across Africa
Banana production in Mozambique and the rest of Africa may be compromised by the spread of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum (TR4), which has caused significant losses in other producing countries. Cavendish (common banana) plantations in Mozambique, where the disease was first recorded on two commercial banana farms in 2013,...
Gaza expects to produce over 221,000 tons of agricultural products
The province of Gaza, especially the district of Chókwè, expects to produce in this second season of the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign, more than 221 thousand tons of various products in an area of over 15 thousand hectares. Cited by Radio Mozambique, the Administrator of the district of Chókwè, Eceu Muianga, highlights in this production, the crops of corn and vegetables...
ADB approves $11.7 million to supply fertilizer to farmers
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB/AfDB) has approved a budget grant of $11.7 million to the African Fertilizer Finance Facility (AFFM) for its 2023 operations. The approval, on May 16, increases the fund allocated to the program to a total of $16.4 million, with...
Vanduzi's company announces avocado export project to Europe
Companhia de Vanduzi made public that it has started a new avocado production and export project that will contribute to the company's growth. The information was revealed on the sidelines of the Economic Briefing of the Confederation of Mozambican Economic Associations (CTA), which took place last week in Chimoio, Manica province. According to...
PR delivers agricultural inputs to 30 thousand families in Zambezia
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, is delivering today, in Quelimane, Zambezia, 30 thousand kits of agricultural inputs to 30 thousand families, as part of the Sustenta emergency program. The event will be attended by three thousand producers, representing the thirty thousand that will benefit from the inputs. The Spokesperson of...