The Mozambican Grains Institute (ICM) promises that it will increase, in the coming days, the control of output of agricultural products with emphasis on maize at the borders with neighbouring Malawi, in order to reduce levels of informality in the cross-border market. To this end, the ICM, signed on Saturday, in the district of Marracuene, province of...
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Moza banco and IFAD sign rural funds management contract
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development through the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Moza Banco have just signed an Agreement for the Management of a Rural Enterprise Finance Project Fund (REFP) until September 2024. This is a project whose objective is to contribute to the improvement of livelihoods...
"Increasing agricultural production remains a challenge," - Filipe Nyusi
The increase in production and productivity levels continues to be one of the main challenges that the Mozambican economy faces to balance the trade balance, especially in the agricultural sector. Speaking at the launch yesterday of the Agricultural Commercialization Campaign, a ceremony held in the district of Marracuene, Maputo province, the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi,...
Mozambique expects to commercialize 17 million tons of agricultural products this campaign
National producers may sell about 17 million tonnes of various agricultural products in the campaign that officially begins tomorrow in the country. The Director of the National Institute of Cereals of Mozambique (ICM), who said this a few moments ago on Radio Mozambique's Café da Manhã, explained that the largest number of sales will be...
ICM and Gapi program to strengthen agricultural commercialization
The Mozambique Cereals Institute (ICM) and Gapi have approved a program to mobilize additional resources to strengthen the Agricultural Commercialization Credit Line (LCCA), an instrument that, since its creation in December 2018, has already financed 260 operations for an accumulated amount of 374 million meticais. In 2021, the LCCA...
Tete puts more than 23 thousand tons of agricultural products on the market
Tete province has commercialized more than 23 thousand tons of various agricultural products as a result of the Special Credit Line for Commercialization Support (LCCA). This combined result is from farmers from the districts of Angónia, Moatize, Dôa, Marávia, Tsangano, Mágoè and Tete City, according to the spokesperson of the Executive Council...
Gaza may soon have agrarian economic zone office
The office of the project of creation of the Special Economic Zone of Agro-Business of Limpopo (ZEEA-L) will be installed still this year in the province of Gaza. The guarantee was given, a few days ago, in Chongoene district, by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia. "This year the office of the agrarian economic zone will be installed and...
Agriculture sector in Inhambane wants to revitalize coconut production
The agriculture sector in Inhambane province is developing strategies to revitalize the production of coconut palms. The intensive production of seedlings and their distribution is one of the priority actions. The Head of the Agrarian Extension Department, in the Provincial Direction of Agriculture and Fisheries, in Inhambane, said that the project is also in projection...
AGribiz plans to assist more than 280 thousand producers in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia
The project "Promove AGribiz" aims to assist until 2024 in rural extension services over 280 thousand small producers in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia, in order to ensure the sustainable growth of agricultural production, towards the improvement of their living conditions. According to the newspaper Notícias, the project, which is currently being implemented...
10 million Euros available for Sustenta Fruticultura program
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER), in partnership with the Austrian Cooperation, will apply this year, 10 million Euros for materialization of the project of technology transfer, under the program Sustenta Fruticultura, whose launching took place a few days ago, in the district of Macate, in the province of Manica. The objective is to develop the...