Sesame yields about six million meticais in Niassa, Mozambique

Published 2022년 7월 19일

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Sesame producers in Niassa province's Mavago district have sold 120 tonnes of the crop, earning around six million meticais since March. They expect to sell 402 tons by August, generating 16 million meticais. Despite challenges like pests, diseases, and the eland animal, which damaged some fields, the plan is to produce 450 tons, up from 395 in the previous period. 11 stakeholders have been involved in the successful marketing of the crop, with the current purchase price at 80 meticais per kilogram. So far, 5,500 family sector producers have contributed to the production of sesame, with projections showing potential revenue of 16 million meticais for the current marketing year.

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Sesame producers in the family sector in Mavago district, in Niassa province, collected around six million meticais corresponding to the sale of 120 tonnes of sesame, this since the start of marketing surpluses from the last season, in March. Practiced intensively at the administrative post of M’Sawize, the producers estimate that the sale of around 402 tons of this oilseed crop will yield, by the end of August, a total of 16 million meticais. According to a publication in Notícias, 5,500 producers in the family sector were involved in the production of sesame, the main raw material for the food oil and national poultry industries. Initial projections point to revenue collection in the order of 16 million meticais, one million less when compared to the levels collected in the last marketing year. At the moment, some sesame producers are still in the harvesting process. The incidence of pests and diseases, as well as the entry of some animals into the fields, such as the eland, ...

Source: Diarioeconomico