A banana production project for the national market and for export has been initially launched on a 15-hectare plot in Motaze, Maputo province, Mozambican daily newspaper Notícias reported. The newspaper added that this was an initiative of businessman and chairman of the Mozambican Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), Rogério Manuel, which will cover an area of 100 hectares.

Maputo province s currently one of Mozambique’s largest banana production areas and the fruit is grown in an area of 2,000 hectares. Mozambique this year is expected to export 70,000 tons of bananas, mainly to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Manuel said he had so far invested around 9 million meticals in the project, which will initially employ 25 full-time staff and added that it had the support of the Agrarian Development Fund.

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SABMiller is hoping to attract aspirant consumers, with its new cassava beer, Impala Cervejas.

It’s brewed in Mozambique, and currently available only in the north of that country, but will potentially be rolled out elsewhere on the continent if it proves a success.

SABMiller on Tuesday launched the first cassava-based beer in Africa.

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A factory for processing pineapples and other foodstuffs is due to start operating by the end of the year in the district of Nicoadala, in Mozambique’s Zambézia province said the director of the Provincial Agricultural Services, Luís Tomo.

Speaking to Mozambican news agency AIM, Tomo said that the factory, which had been scheduled for completion last May but had not because of problems with the contractor, “is ready and should start operating before the end of the year.” Construction of a factory in the district aims to reduce the losses that producers face each year as the quantities of pineapple produced in the district are high.

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A new law proposed by Mozambique’s government plans to make raw materials used for the production of animal feed to be exempt from VAT.

Mozambique’s Association of Poultry Farmers has welcomed the move. However the chairman, Emílio Tinga, told local newspaper Notícias that the association’s poultry farmers had expected much more, specifically for VAT exemption to be extended to the entire production process, including the import of equipment.

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Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday expressed optimism that the southern province of Inhambane can continue to increase agricultural production. President Guebuza was speaking during a special sitting of the provincial government in the town of Jangamo.

He said that one of the main challenges facing the country is to develop small and medium scale industry for processing agricultural goods. “The potential of agricultural production is large. Our challenge now is to conserve those goods” said the Head of State, stressing the importance of establishing a processing industry. After analysing a report presented by Agostinho Trinta, the Governor of Inhambane province, President Guebuza welcomed the fact that total production in the province has greatly increased, and stated that “this is a good sign”.

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