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...
Category: Agriculture
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Nyusi orders payment of FDS salaries under the old system. "The salary is sacred"
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...
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Sustenta Project benefits and buys loyalty from party "farmers" - studies show
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...
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Moza Banco defends shared risk as a solution to finance agriculture in Mozambique
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...
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Mozambican farmers receive support from 28 M$ to boost competitiveness
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...
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Study reveals Mozambique continues to follow colonial agricultural production pattern
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...
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Nampula: Farmers from the "promove/Agribiz" program await certification of their products
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...
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Sofala: Gorongosa expects to double its coffee production level
The district of Gorongosa, with a greater focus on the slopes of Serra, in Sofala, plans to double its coffee production, from the current 400,000 seedlings to 800,000 per campaign, thanks to the end of hostilities and the closure of the last military base of the former armed movement, Renamo, in Vunduzi. According to the administrator of the...
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Nampula: Cashew sector has already produced 1.3 million seedlings this year
The cashew sector in Nampula province has already produced 1.3 million seedlings out of the 2.7 million planned by the Mozambique Almond Institute (IAM) for this year. Of this total, around one million cashew seedlings have already been delivered to the productive sector, both family and commercial, which according to the IAM,...
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Niassa: IIAM projects wheat production to start this year
Niassa province intends to start producing wheat from the 2023-24 agricultural season, according to the Secretary of State for that region in the north of the country, Lina Portugal. To this end, the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM), through the Northwest Zonal Center, based in Lichinga, is developing wheat varieties...