The Zambezia provincial government advocates the need to enhance public-private partnerships and producer associations aiming at protecting the investments being made in the rehabilitation and construction of irrigation infrastructures. The provincial director of Agriculture and Fisheries in Zambezia, Fernando Namucua, said this Thursday in an interview to Notícias that many...
Category: Agriculture
Reduction of Sustenta funding could jeopardize global production in Gaza
The reduction of funding to Gaza province, under the Sustenta program, may contract the overall production by 2.28% in the current fiscal year compared to last year. Data presented last week in the VII Ordinary Session of the Provincial Assembly show that the global production for 2022 is estimated in 62.044,76 million meticais,...
United Arab Emirates want to invest in Maputo province
The United Arab Emirates intend to invest in the province of Maputo in the areas of gas and agriculture. With this purpose, Omar Mubarak Aljaberi, chargé d'affaires at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Mozambique, sat on Tuesday at the same table with the head of the executive council of Maputo. According to Radio Mozambique, the meeting showed that...
Partners harmonize the corn value chain in Gaza
Gaza province will host, this Friday, a seminar of socialization and harmonization of the study on the ecosystem of the maize value chain in Mozambique. The meeting, organized by the Cereals Institute of Mozambique (ICM), in partnership with the International Growth Center (IGC), will take place under the theme "Strengthening Partnerships and Synergies...
Mozambique wants to increase its oilseed contribution in the coming years
The government will use the vast network of domestic producers to expand the cultivation of oilseeds and their derivatives, with a view to generating an annual turnover of up to two billion US dollars over the next three years. In Mozambique, the market for edible oil and its derivatives is about 500 million...
Government bets on genetic improvement and cattle nutrition
The government will invest, this year, in the genetic improvement of cattle, in supplementation and slaughter technology that is expected to impact the quality of meat and increase the income of producers in the family sub-sector. In effect, one thousand bulls, genetically improved, will be acquired and delivered to producers, all over the country...
Land conflict threatens to scupper agricultural production project in Gaza
In the province of Gaza, a land conflict threatens to make an agricultural production project unviable, in an investment of 45 million dollars, in Mucatine, Massingir district. Some members of the Mucatine community say that there has been no transparency in the concession of an area of 2 thousand hectares to the company Massingir Vale Farms, which intends to produce corn,...
Regadio do Baixo Limpopo expects to harvest more than 35 thousand tons of rice
The Regadio do Baixo Limpopo (RBL) foresees a production of 35 thousand tons of rice in the present agricultural season (2021/22). This production will be achieved in an area of 5500 hectares, which is already plowed and sown, expecting an average yield of 6.5 tons per hectare. In total, 13,600 tons are prepared for the current agricultural season.
Entrepreneurs from Gaza want to internationalize their business
Entrepreneurs from Gaza Province see the Business Mission to South Africa as an opportunity to internationalize their businesses. Gathered last Thursday, February 10th, the economic agents from the Transport and Agro-business sectors, specifically producers of pineapple, brandies, rice and fishermen, that integrate the business delegation that in March...
Manica invests 14 thousand dollars in agrarian projects
Just over 14 thousand US dollars will be invested in agrarian enterprises in the province of Manica, under the implementation of the project "Movement for the Development of Climate Change Resilient Productive Value Chains". The referred project, which will benefit more than 22 thousand producers, was designed by the provincial Executive Council, and the...