Mozambique to export new lychee variety to Europe

As of this year, Mozambique will export a new variety of lychee to the European continent – a variety of Chinese origin, and of high commercial value. Steps towards growing it in Mozambique are being implemented in Manica, in the centre of the country. News of this development was shared in Tete at the launch of the Catalytic Fund for Innovation and Demonstration, by Anselmo Mareque, representing Westfalia Fruit Moçambique, a fruit-growing firm based in Manica. Read: Mozambique: Manica eyes on more than 300 tons of litchi to be exported to Europe Quoted by ‘Notícias’, Mareque remarked that Mozambique had the agro-ecological conditions to introduce the seedless lychee species in districts with a certain micro-climate, such as Macossa, in Manica province. Mareque added that another strategy favouring Mozambique’s insertion in the European market, and in other parts of the world, was its early harvest in relation to Madagascar, its main competitor on the continent. Maruque noted that ...