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President Filipe Nyusi says that from now until 2019, Mozambican families must not regard chicken and eggs as a luxury, but as part of their regular diet.
“Until 2019, in the diet of Mozambican families, consuming poultry or eggs should not be a luxury only reserved for festive days or when visitors are received. Chicken and eggs should be part of the routine diet of our families,” President Nyusi said.
The head of state was speaking yesterday in Rapale district, Nampula province, at the opening session of a national one-day summit for key players in the chicken production value chain.
The President’s projections indicate that, by 2019, national chicken consumption requirements will be in the order of 96,863 tonnes per year and, by that time, “we will be producing [enough] to meet domestic demand and, perhaps, to export to other countries”.
Ten years ago poultry production in the country was less than 6,000 tonnes. At present, it is 75,000 tonnes.
“Production still remains insufficient to meet domestic consumption needs,” said Nyusi, adding that it remained the government’s intention to work hard to ensure households have easy, competitively priced access to chicken nutrients and derivatives.
The President expressed concern that more than 1.5 million Mozambicans remained in food and nutritional insecurity.
In a speech entitled “The imperative of stimulating domestic chicken production, to be self-sufficient and to replace imports,” Nyusi said that the dream was to put Mozambique on the list of the world’s largest chicken producers, alongside the US, Brazil, China and Thailand.
“In other words, we are saying, unequivocally, that we must drastically increase production, and put an end to chicken imports within the current governance cycle (2015/19),” he said.
The President spoke of the critical factors affecting poultry production in the country, such as high production costs, which dictate the sale price to the final consumer; smuggling of chicken imports; low productive capacity for the establishment of the national market; weak supply capacity, which forces them to import, with the aim of supplying demand during periods of deficit; the lack of professional slaughterhouses with enough storage facilities; and the reduced availability of raw material to produce feed.
To address these barriers, Nyusi said that the government had been introducing incentives and policies to stimulate the agrarian sector in general and the national poultry industry in particular.
These include exemption from VAT on the import of raw materials for the manufacture of feed for breeding and slaughter animals; implementation of import control mechanisms for chicken through the quota system granted to some importers; adoption and implementation of mechanisms to finance the value chain, through the introduction of a line of credit for poultry, which aims to finance small producers.
Just yesterday, President Nyusi released a brochure “Agriculture Mission 2016/17”, at which time also good poultry farming practices in Mozambique were announced and exemplary poultry farmers recognised.
Today, Nyusi will inaugurate a cashew processing plant, preside over the completion of courses at the Marechal Samora Machel Military Academy and hold a meeting with community leaders.
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