An initiative that aims to make trade more flexible, especially for agricultural food and cash crops produced by farmers in the country's three northern provinces, namely Nampula, Niassa and Cabo Delgado, will be launched later this month.

The city of Cuamba, in Niassa, will be the stage for the launching ceremony of the referred government initiative called "Project for Agribusiness Development in the Pemba-Lichinga Corridor".

It seeks to stimulate the increase of agricultural production in an area with potential for this, as well as to promote the growth of small producers from the cycle of subsistence agriculture to a competitive agribusiness, capable of generating income.

Among the main impacts expected by the Government, resulting from the operationalization of the agribusiness development initiative in the Pemba-Lichinga corridor, the highlight goes to the promotion of road connectivity between the three northern provinces, the increase in agricultural and livestock production, the increase in the volume of trade and income for those involved in the value chain, and exports.

The Secretary of State in Niassa, Dinis Vilanculo, who revealed to Notícias, that the fact recently in the city of Lichinga, during a meeting with representatives of civil society organizations at the local level, urged the province's producers to increase production volumes and productivity, justifying market guarantees for the placement of crops.

"The effort that the Government is making, at this moment, is in the sense of promoting the necessary conditions so that the population can develop the activities considered ideal to promote positive changes in the social context and contribution to the strengthening of the economy," said Dinis Vilanculo for whom the valorization of this effort should be characterized by the increase in production and productivity in various sectors, particularly agriculture.

The participants in the meeting praised the Government's initiative, admitting that it may contribute to the absorption of the producers' surpluses and stimulate the increase of the respective cultivation areas and, consequently, the volume of harvests and the consequent reinforcement of incomes for the families' social stability.

Júlio Aquimo, one of the participants in the meeting, said that considerable volumes of agricultural products, in particular corn from last season's harvest, are in the possession of a considerable number of producers in the province due to difficulties in placing them on the market at a price capable of offsetting production costs.