The Agriculture Sector plans to restart the issuance of labels in seed certification, to ensure the traceability of proven lots and reduce the circulation of improper inputs. This measure aims to address the precariousness or lack of infrastructure, equipment and human resources at border and internal inspection posts, which is a challenge for...
In Sofala, center of the country, about four thousand small producers of the family sector will receive financial support and agricultural inputs, in the third phase of the program Sustenta launched this Thursday. It is expected that the productive value chain in the province will increase through the transfer of agricultural technologies. Cited by Radio Mozambique, the director...
Maputo province achieved self-sufficiency in several agricultural products in the 2020-2021 agricultural campaign. The balance of the campaign indicates that Maputo had surplus results in vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage and green beans), roots and tubers (sweet potatoes and cassava) and chicken. The information was revealed recently by the governor of the province, Júlio Paruque, who pointed out the...
Mozambique is seeking a market in Equatorial Guinea for the marketing of domestic agricultural products. The interest was expressed this Wednesday by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, at Maputo International Airport, during the farewell ceremony to the Head of State. President Nyusi left Maputo on Wednesday, bound for Equatorial Guinea, for a visit to...
The Director-General of the Mozambique Cereals Institute (ICM), says that the country has two years to stop losing agricultural surpluses to neighboring countries. These are surpluses that escape from the State control, through the border opened by inappropriate circuits with Malawi standing out as the beneficiary of the corn produced in Mozambique. To stop...
The new emergency plan of the African Development Bank to prevent a food crisis in Africa, of 1.5 billion dollars, will distribute new technologies that allow to grow crops even in drought situations, said a vice president of the institution. Lusa news agency writes. The ADB announced last week an African Production Plan...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, said that 150,000 families in the production sector saw their income increase during this year by 32%. "This is one of the factors that highlights the government's efforts to ensure food security and economic stability, in the country, in general and of producers, in...
Sara Menker, CEO of agricultural analysis firm Gro Intelligence, told the United Nations Security Council that the war in Ukraine "simply added fuel to a fire that had been burning for a long time," clarifying that it is not the main cause of the wheat shortage. However, Ukraine, the invaded country, and Russia,...
The World Bank's International Financial Institutions Action Plan for Addressing Food Insecurity says the institution has $12 billion available over the next 15 months to help countries respond to the food security crisis. Most of the money is destined for Africa and the Middle East,...
G7 agriculture ministers have criticized India's decision to ban wheat exports, arguing that such a decision "will only worsen the crisis" in grain supplies, already strained by the war in Ukraine. G7 agriculture ministers meeting, in Stuttgart, Germany, this Saturday "recommended" taking this issue to...