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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday inaugurated an industrial slaughterhouse in Manhiça district, about 90 kilometres north of Maputo.
The Matama slaughterhouse and its equipment cost a total of about 450 million meticais (about 7.3 million US dollars, at current exchange rates), and the capital is entirely Mozambican. According to one of its founders, Boavida Mutombene, the project began in 2012, and initially the idea was that it should take the form of a cooperative. In the end, however, Matama became a company, with 82 shareholders.
The slaughterhouse employs 80 workers, and has the capacity to slaughter 60 animals a day. Its cold stores are able to hold 150 tonnes of meat. Most of the industrial equipment is of German manufacture.
Although the slaughterhouse is currently at an experimental stage, Mutombene was convinced that the project is viable and will help substitute imported meat, thus saving the country foreign exchange.
At a later stage, Matama will also set up a factory to produce animal feed. This should stimulate the production of maize as the main raw material for such a factory.
“The company is also seeking to invest around 90 million meticais to encourage livestock breeding in the peasant family sector”, said Mutombene.
Maputo province has the third largest cattle herd in Mozambique, much of which is concentrated in Manhiça.
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