Mozambique already exports refined sugar to European markets

Published 2021년 10월 19일

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Mozambique has exported 10,000 tons of refined sugar to European markets, including Italy, Spain, and the UK, marking the first export of the year. This significant financial inflow is achieved through the Xinavane Sugar Estate's refinery, which has an annual capacity of 90,000 tons and has stopped Mozambique's importation of refined sugar since 2020. However, the sugar producers' association warns of potential decreased production this year due to low soil productivity and climate change, despite the best production year in recent years being in 2018 with a harvest of 348,000 tons. The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has also directed extension workers, some of whom will receive motorbikes to improve productivity in the family sector.

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Ten thousand tons of refined sugar were exported, for the first time this year, to European markets, namely Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, representing a significant financial inflow for the State's coffers. The fact was revealed this Monday (18 October) by the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Celso Correia, at the end of a working visit to Açucareira de Moçambique, in Mafambisse, in the district of Dondo, in Sofala. The export results from the refinery installed, in November 2018, in the Xinavane Sugar Estate, in Maputo, with an installed capacity of 90 thousand tons, increasing the levels of internal consumption. Therefore, Celso Correia highlighted that, in the last two years, Mozambique stopped importing refined sugar, at a time when viable signs for economic recovery are beginning to appear. The Association of Sugar Producers in Mozambique (APAMO), in the voice of its executive director, João Jeque, guarantees that this year's projections, set at 306,000 ...

Source: Diarioeconomico