The Zambezi Valley Development Agency is investing more than 53 million meticais in Manica province to mitigate the impact of agricultural crop losses associated with the El Niño weather phenomenon. Called the Immediate Intervention Plan for the second season of the 2023-2024 agricultural campaign, the initiative provides for the distribution of...
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Manica: Authorities recommend conscious sale of agricultural products to avoid famine
The government of Manica province, in the center of the country, is urging producers to be more cautious when selling surpluses during the agricultural marketing year, in order to avoid the occurrence of hunger pangs. The lack of rain in some districts of the province, associated with the El Nino phenomenon, has led to the loss of extensive...
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Government wants to strengthen credit line for agricultural marketing and food security
The Minister of Industry and Trade, Silvino Moreno, acknowledged the importance and urgency of strengthening the capacity of the Credit Line for Agricultural Commercialization (LCCA), an instrument co-financed by the Cereals Institute of Mozambique (ICM) and Gapi. The instrument is available throughout the country through the fifteen branches of Gapi-Sociedade de Investimentos...
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Mozambique promises to legislate on agricultural marketing later this year
The Mozambican government, through the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC), will send four decree-laws regulating agricultural marketing in the country to the Council of Ministers this year. According to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Silvino Moreno, who was speaking last Friday (12) during the closing ceremony of the sixth National Forum on Agricultural Commercialization, these...
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President of the Republic launches Agricultural Marketing Campaign today
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, today, Friday (12), in the town of Luelele, administrative post of Mandimba-Sede, Niassa province, presided over the Central Ceremony to launch the Agricultural Marketing Campaign-2024. The event, which will be replicated throughout the country, aims to encourage producers and those involved in agricultural marketing to start...
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Cabo Delgado plans to market more than 1.3 million tons of agricultural products
Cabo Delgado province plans to market more than 1.3 million tons of various agricultural products, including food and cash crops, whose campaign officially kicks off this Friday (12). This figure, according to the provincial director of Industry and Commerce in Cabo Delgado, represents an increase of 5% compared to the previous agricultural marketing year....
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Government strengthens mechanisms to control and manage fertilizers in the country
The government, through the Council of Ministers, approved a new fertilizer management regulation last week, with one of the main objectives being "to bring greater security to the quality of fertilizers circulating in the country". The new regulation, according to data from the National Directorate for Agricultural Health and Biosafety, fills in some gaps...
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Chicken production in Maputo grew by 7% last year
The city of Maputo, the country's capital, will produce 8,348.5 tons of chicken meat in 2023 compared to 7,795.8 tons in 2022, which corresponds to an increase of 7%. According to the director of the Economic Activities Service in the city, Hélio Neves, who was speaking yesterday, Thursday (03), during the launch of the 2024 animal vaccination campaign, the...
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Netherlands allocates 30 M€ to strengthen food systems in the Beira corridor
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is funding 30 million euros to implement a program aimed at strengthening food systems and food and nutrition security in the Beira corridor. The initiative, which is being implemented in twelve districts in the provinces of Manica and Sofala, aims to improve the diet...
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INAM: El-Niño phenomenon could disappear in the country as of next month
The Mozambican meteorological services say that the El Niño weather phenomenon, which has been battering parts of the South and Central regions since the end of last year, has entered the weakening phase and should dissipate from next month. An official source from the National Meteorological Institute (INAM) said this on Thursday (21), on the sidelines of the launch of the...