The Member of the Executive Committee (MCE) of Moza Banco, Jaime Joaquim, recently argued in Maputo, during the 1st edition of Expo India - Mozambique 2023, that the challenges related to financing agriculture in the country could be solved if the risk associated with the activity was shared. Jaime Joaquim explains that given the...
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) has made 28 million dollars available to support small farmers in Mozambique over the next five years, an official source announced during the official launch of Agra's strategy. "For the third strategy, our investment is around 28 million dollars over five years, focused on...
Mozambique maintains the production pattern of the colonial period in agriculture, exporting more cash crops and importing more food, a paradigm that makes the country vulnerable to external shocks in essential goods, says a study presented yesterday in Maputo. "We still have the challenge of changing the way Mozambique's economy has been structured to...
Farmers who are part of the "PROMOVE/Agribiz" program as seed multipliers, implemented by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO), are waiting for their products to be certified. The "PROMOVE/Agribiz" program covers nutrition, biodiversity, trade, energy and transport. The project is funded by the European Union (EU) to the tune of 90 million euros and is...
The district of Gorongosa, with a greater focus on the slopes of Serra, in Sofala, plans to double its coffee production, from the current 400,000 seedlings to 800,000 per campaign, thanks to the end of hostilities and the closure of the last military base of the former armed movement, Renamo, in Vunduzi. According to the administrator of the...
The cashew sector in Nampula province has already produced 1.3 million seedlings out of the 2.7 million planned by the Mozambique Almond Institute (IAM) for this year. Of this total, around one million cashew seedlings have already been delivered to the productive sector, both family and commercial, which according to the IAM,...
Niassa province intends to start producing wheat from the 2023-24 agricultural season, according to the Secretary of State for that region in the north of the country, Lina Portugal. To this end, the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM), through the Northwest Zonal Center, based in Lichinga, is developing wheat varieties...
More than 300,000 rice farmers in Sofala province are benefiting from a cutting and processing machine, which will help to reduce post-harvest losses, an official source said. The machine is an 'auto combinada', with the capacity to cut and process around three hectares of rice a day, according to...
The president of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Akihiko Tanaka, said Wednesday that he would continue to provide assistance aimed at boosting Mozambique's economy, with emphasis on the agribusiness and industrialization sectors. This was stated during a meeting that the president of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique (AR), Esperança Bias, held with Tanaka,...
A multi-sectoral working group, which includes the Mozambican Banking Association (AMB), the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC), the Bank of Mozambique (BM), the 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...