Mozambique needs to produce 355 thousand tons of rice for self-sufficiency

The country needs to increase rice production to 355 thousand tons in order to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce imports, reinforcing food and nutritional security, the newspaper Notícias reported this Thursday (25). The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) is looking for financing to support small family farmers dedicated to rice production. The information was shared yesterday, July 24, by Lúcia Luciano, national director of Family Agriculture, during a multisectoral political dialogue on open agricultural data ecosystems in Southern Africa. “Our effort is to look at the issue of rice, as we notice that the consumption of this crop has been increasing and the challenge is to concentrate efforts on it, towards self-sufficiency, since there are conditions to produce the crop”, he stated Lucia Luciano. The official said that, currently, Mozambique produces an average of 161 thousand tons of rice per campaign and, to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce import ...