The Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) is rehabilitating more than 2,500 hectares of mined areas in the Manica district for agricultural production, in order to benefit local farmers. According to Rádio Moçambique (RM), the activity will involve around 3,300 farmers, with each family...
The government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER), will issue specific technical recommendations for farmers and livestock producers in the family sector to mitigate the possible effects of the El-Niño weather phenomenon, which will hit the central and southern regions of the country from next month. According to Hiten Janlal, who...
Entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector have faced enormous barriers to obtaining bank financing for the development of agriculture. As a way of getting around this scenario, commercial banks are suggesting the creation of a guarantee fund to make agricultural financing viable in the country. The position was defended by the Mozambican Association of Banks (AMB), during a...
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO) is advocating the massification of mechanization in the practice of conservation agriculture, in order to help increase production and preserve the environment. The approach, which is still relatively uncommon on the continent in general and in Mozambique in particular, was...
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, today ordered the payment of salaries to members of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), who have not yet received them, using the system prior to the Single Salary Table (TSU), immediately, starting next Monday. "While the platform for processing special salaries has not yet been completed, the remaining...
There are indications that the SUSTENTA project is not as functional as has been rumored and that, even so, its beneficiaries belong to the Frelimo party. As the newspaper Evidências writes, quoting a report by the Rural Environment Observatory (OMR), "SUSTENTA is not functional because it does not respond to the current challenges facing agriculture in the country." By...
The Member of the Executive Committee (MCE) of Moza Banco, Jaime Joaquim, recently argued in Maputo, during the 1st edition of Expo India - Mozambique 2023, that the challenges related to financing agriculture in the country could be solved if the risk associated with the activity was shared. Jaime Joaquim explains that given the...
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) has made 28 million dollars available to support small farmers in Mozambique over the next five years, an official source announced during the official launch of Agra's strategy. "For the third strategy, our investment is around 28 million dollars over five years, focused on...
Mozambique maintains the production pattern of the colonial period in agriculture, exporting more cash crops and importing more food, a paradigm that makes the country vulnerable to external shocks in essential goods, says a study presented yesterday in Maputo. "We still have the challenge of changing the way Mozambique's economy has been structured to...
Farmers who are part of the "PROMOVE/Agribiz" program as seed multipliers, implemented by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO), are waiting for their products to be certified. The "PROMOVE/Agribiz" program covers nutrition, biodiversity, trade, energy and transport. The project is funded by the European Union (EU) to the tune of 90 million euros and is...