Mozambique will take advantage of the ecological potential of Tete and Niassa provinces, in the center and north of the country, respectively, to invest in wheat production, as announced today, the President of the Republic (PR). Filipe Nyusi, who was speaking on the sidelines of the opening of the first symposium on agricultural research in Mozambique, at KaTembe, said that the first steps in the...
Category: Agriculture
Government makes three billion meticais available for agrarian research
The Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM) will benefit from an investment of three billion meticais, in the next two and a half years, for the improvement of infrastructures of vaccine research and seed production fields, with the objective of increasing agricultural production in the country, announced today, in Maputo, the President of the...
Maputo hosts today agrarian research symposium
Starts this morning in the municipal district of KaTembe, Maputo city, the first national symposium on agricultural research, event in which will be presented the results of research conducted on various cash crops. The opening of the event will be directed by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, and a mid-term balance sheet of the...
Gaza entrepreneurs challenged to invest in agro-processing
The Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, challenges the businessmen of Gaza province to invest in the rice and vegetables processing, in order to avoid post-harvest wastes and stimulate the local production. Adriano Maleiane said that it is the business role to invest in agro-processing, in order to close the value chain of the agricultural production. Maleiane was thus reacting to the information...
Nyusi inaugurates corn processing plant valued at 130 million meticals
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, will today inaugurate a factory for processing corn and other cereals in the province of Nampula. The venture results from a proven investment budgeted at 130 million meticais. The enterprise is already operational since 2020, absorbing part of the quantities of corn produced in northern Mozambique, mainly from...
Excess banana leads producers to abandon the cultivation of the crop
The unsustainability of the banana crop is leading more than 2,000 producers in the town of Munguinea, in Manhiça district, Maputo province, to abandon the cultivation of the crop. The producers say they are registering significant losses of bananas and other crops, according to Radio Mozambique. With this the producers...
PR inaugurates cooking oil extraction and refining plant
The President of the Republic (PR), Filipe Nyusi, inaugurated today a factory for extracting and refining cooking oil in the city of Cuamba, in Niassa province. It is estimated that the factory unit will produce three million liters per year. "Every producer knows that his product has a place here, including soybeans. For this plant...
State will recover more than 348 million hectares of land for non-compliance with exploitation plans
The non-compliance of the land exploitation plans by the users or applicants led the Estrado to decide for the reversion in their favor, said today in Mossuril, in Nampula province, the Minister of Land and Environment, Ivete Maibaze. "From August 2021 to this part, the Ministry of Land and Environment inspected, in...
300 million dollars available for agricultural commercialization
More than 300 million dollars are being applied in the current agricultural marketing campaign by medium and large economic operators in the country. At the same time, the Mozambique Cereals Institute (ICM) has 400 million meticals available under a credit line in support of agricultural marketing. The ICM director-general, Mahomed...
"First" Ukrainian grain shipment on its way to Africa
A ship made the first shipment of wheat in Ukraine on Friday for food aid in Ethiopia - the first food delivery to Africa under the UN-mediated plan to unblock grain held in that country. For months, fighting and a Russian blockade have caused grain produced in Ukraine, known...