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Chinese to boost agriculture in Mozambique
Female farmer scoops award for food production[Menesia Muinjo and Geline Fuko] In the past, Celina Cossa would queue for days and even nights just waiting to buy a bag of maize. But that did not even guarantee she would be able to purchase it. Some nights her two children, her husband and her would go to sleep on empty stomachs. 2 Sep 2009 07:48 Mozambique: Markets too far for farmers' profit[Jessie Boylan] LAGO DISTRICT: August is peak tomato season in the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, and farmers are bringing bucket-loads of tomatoes to sell to Nkwichi Lodge, one of the few buyers of local produce in the region. 1 Sep 2009 09:44 Mozambique: Economic growth remains robust[Arão Valoi] MAPUTO: Economic growth in Mozambique will remain at "comfortable" levels despite the slowdown caused by the crisis, reflected in the reduction of state exports and revenues, said the Portuguese Bank, BPI, on his report published in Maputo on 20 July 2009. 27 Jul 2009 12:22 Mozambique: Socremo launches new product[Arao Valoi] MAPUTO: Mozambican bank, Socremo, announced on 2 July 2009, the launch of a new product called 'Account Vitamin'. 7 Jul 2009 09:05 Mozambique: IMF approves US$176 million for exogenous shocks
Mozambique: WB reports improved business but low productivity[Arao Valoi] MAPUTO: The business environment in Mozambique registered significant improvements last year but productivity levels, which could allow the country to compete in global markets are still a big concern, according to a World Bank report released on Monday, 29 June 2009. 1 Jul 2009 11:10 Mozambique: Researchers ponder value of cash transfers[Mercedes Sayagues] MAPUTO: Their mud huts perch precariously on the eroded, high embankment of the Zambezi river, in the provincial capital of Tete, in central Mozambique. But watching their homes be washed away by erosion or floods is just another risk for the residents of Matundo and Matheus Sansao Muthemba bairros. Their lives are as precarious as their homes. 13 May 2009 11:04 “Fight against poverty is our new war” say Mozambique's poorRetail trade and its associated sectors cannot thrive in a society encumbered by poverty - what the poor of mozambique regard as their "new war". 16 Oct 2008 08:24 Mozambique: Cheap rail travel boosts cross-border tradeAngelina Sidumo is one of the hundreds of traders that throng the busy train station in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, on most Wednesday afternoons to catch the once-weekly train south to Chicualacuala town in Gaza Province, an 18-hour journey covering nearly 500km. 5 Sep 2008 08:46 Mozambique: Boost for the small farmer
Mozambique: Second wave of reforms aims to share wealth
Mozambican, SA farmers partner to grow sugarcane[Sydney Masinga] The Mozambican government will donate 29,000 hectares of land to small-scale sugarcane farmers in both Mozambique and South Africa over the next three years. 25 Jan 2008 11:13 Latest jobs | Ad showcase |
A Chinese centre for research and transfer of agricultural technology is set to open in Mozambique in early 2010. The facility will use China's farming expertise to boost the African country's agricultural productivity by improving cultivation methods and training local scientists and farmers. 
In an effort to build a long-term source of food supplies in developing countries while boosting small-scale agriculture, the World Food Programme (WFP) will soon begin buying food from local farmers in Mozambique. 
After a four year stint working on a South African gold mine in Johannesburg, Orlando Khosa, 33, returned home to Mozambique to establish his own business and eight years later it proved to be a smart business decision. 
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