Despite the various criticisms that the Sustenta Project has suffered from civil society, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development says that the goals of his sector's Five-Year Plan have been achieved over the last five years. Celso Correia, however, says that the biggest challenge is milk production, which from the...
The Italian government announced today, Monday (08), that it will provide 35 million euros for the construction of an Agricultural Center for Food Processing in Manica, in central Mozambique. According to Italy's Director General for Cooperation and Development, Stefano Gatti, after signing the agreement with the Minister of Economy and Finance,...
The Mozambican government, through the National Institute of Cotton and Oilseeds of Mozambique (IAOM), an institution under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, announced a few days ago the launch of a public tender to select companies to promote and market sesame in the country. The tender is aimed at finding...
Over the last five years, the country has seen an increase of 41% in national meat production, helping to reduce the deficit in meeting domestic consumption, which currently stands at an average of four percent. The data is contained in the 2023 Livestock Production Balance released yesterday, Wednesday (03), by the Ministry of Agriculture...
On Thursday (27), Norway made a commitment to allocate around 94 million US dollars to support small producers in six African countries, including Mozambique. Of this package, 19 million dollars will fund the work of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development (Norges Vel) in Mozambique and Tanzania over the next...
In the first quarter of this year, some districts in the provinces of Nampula, Zambézia, Sofala and Gaza experienced the worst drought in the last 50 years, as a result of the influence of the El Niño phenomenon, according to the report on the 2023/24 rainy and cyclonic season, presented last Friday (21) by the National Meteorological Institute (INAM). According to...
A total of 865,595 hectares of various crops have been affected by "climatic phenomena", in particular drought, floods and pests, which have devastated parts of the country in the current agricultural season, leaving just over a million producers in need of "short and medium-term" support. The figures are contained in the Ministry's preliminary...
Three thousand more producers could enter the coffee production chain by 2030 in the country, bringing the number of coffee farmers to 7,000. The target is set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) and was announced last weekend in Maputo by the minister responsible, Celso Correia, during the...
National store coverage has been achieved, continuing the company's expansion plan, this time in Chókwè. The store has more than 260m2 and more than 15,000 product references for agriculture, livestock, fisheries and much more. The opening of the store in Chokwé demonstrates...
At the Council of Ministers, the Mozambican government set the minimum purchase price for seed cotton from the producer, the ginning fee and the seed cotton price subsidy, which will come into force during the 2023-2024 agricultural campaign. According to the spokesperson for the 17th ordinary session of the Council of Ministers, Ludovina Bernardo, the...