Mozambique: The oilseed sector is concerned about weak production in recent years

The Mozambican Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, is developing a study to determine the real factors that have dictated, in recent years, the low production of oilseed crops, namely sesame, sunflower and soybeans. The fact was announced this Tuesday, October 17th, in the city of Nampula, at the regional meeting to disseminate new rules and procedures for the production, marketing, transport, storage, import and export of oilseeds. In his intervention, the director of central development services at the Cotton and Oilseed Institute of Mozambique (IAOM), Edson Almeida, defended “the need to improve new production plans for these crops and better incentives for producers to leverage their activities” . In turn, the director of the Provincial Service of Economic Activities in Nampula, Juma Cateria, highlighted that the one-day meeting “served to stimulate the various stakeholders in the oilseeds value chain”. The event brought together some ...