The Netherlands has made available 620 thousand euros to build an agricultural technology center in Chimoio, central Mozambique, aiming to strengthen production and empower farmers, involving 100 young people, it was announced today. “We will be able to train farmers here, train agricultural extension officers [agricultural professionals], train different individuals who are interested in agricultural production, so that we can improve what is the production situation in terms of low productivity, difficulties in accessing the market, and difficulty in accessing inputs,” said the deputy director of the organization Resilience Mozambique, Cláudio Gundana. The official added that the project provides for social inclusion in training, with goals of 40% women and 30% young people, in addition to the incubation of new entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector. According to the ambassador of the Netherlands in Mozambique, Elsbeth Akkerman, the center will be implemented in the Beira ...