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...
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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...
"We want to boost production of potatoes to reduce imports" -Celso Correia
Government intends to boost the production of potatoes in order to reduce the import of this product. The fact was revealed last Friday by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, on his visit to the district of Báruê, Manica province. Celso Correia said that the consumption of potatoes has been increasing in...
Government bets on the creation of a special agro-processing zone in the North
The government guarantees that it will invest in the implementation of the special agro-industrial processing zone in Niassa province, in order to stimulate the increase of agricultural production and productivity in the region. To this end, according to the newspaper Notícias, the Council of Ministers on Tuesday considered information on the launch of the project of the Special Processing Zone...
Mozambique recorded an increase in agricultural production in the last two years
Agricultural production in the country has increased from 20 million tons to 43 million tons in the period from 2018 to 2020. This number is expected to rise to 47 million this year. The data were made public this Monday, in Maputo, at a press conference, by the president of Agribusiness, nutrition and industry...