One hundred thousand dollars is the amount that the agricultural association of Gaza province will receive from the Trade and Development Bank of East and South Africa (TDB) for the agricultural sector in this region. "This project is aimed at the main challenges faced by this community in the face of climate change. By providing water pumps that...
The provincial government of Tete, in central Mozambique, has just ordered a ban on the movement of cattle from the districts of Chifunde, Marávia and Zumbo to the rest of the province, due to an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in neighboring Zambia. According to sources quoted by Rádio Moçambique, the action is aimed at safeguarding...
Sugar production in Mozambique could reach 210,000 tons in the 2024-25 campaign, a slightly upward trend compared to the previous season, when indicators were set at around 200,000 tons. According to the executive director of the Association of Sugar Producers of Mozambique (APAMO), Orlando da Conceição, despite this development, the...
Brazil wants to go ahead with a rice production project in the Lower Limpopo region, Gaza province, as part of cooperation aimed at boosting food production and agribusiness in Mozambique, the country's Ambassador in Maputo, Ademar Seabra da Cruz Júnior, revealed last week. According to the diplomat, quoted by Revista...
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...