Mozambique: Corn and soybean producers collected more than 5 million meticais in agricultural marketing

Corn and soybean producers in the Alto Molócuè district, in the province of Zambézia (central Mozambique), made a profit of more than 5 million meticais from the agricultural marketing of these two crops. The district expected to sell more than 245 thousand tons of various products during the campaign, which is coming to an end, including fruits, whose potential is already beginning to require industrialization, the newspaper Notícias published this Friday, October 11. According to the agency, the district director of Economic Activities in Alto Molócuè, Arsénio Candua, stated that the increase in corn and soybean production is due to the growth of the poultry and milling industries for the production of corn. The official highlighted that the producers sell the soybean to agricultural companies that need raw materials to produce feed for chicken farmers, while the rest is exported to the Asian market. According to the source, the corn sold this season is processed locally by ...