Extensionists trained in fruit production and management

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Extensionists trained in fruit production and management

8:13 CAT | 18 Oct 2016

The Mozambican government’s Agricultural Development Fund (FDA) has begun training fifty extensionists from the southern provinces of Maputo, Gaza, and Inhambane in techniques for the production and management of fruit such as orange and lychee.

The training is being carried out in partnership with the government’s Agricultural Research Institute (IIAM). It will give the extensionists knowledge of improved practices and innovations for the establishment of orchards, management of irrigation, and the identification of pests and diseases and their respective methods of control and prevention.

During the two-week training course, the extensionists will also learn more about the production, processing, and storage of fruit, to facilitate access to the national and international market.

The initiative is part of the national programme launched in 2011 to encourage small and medium-sized farmers to increase fruit production. Between 2011 and 2015, the Agricultural Development Fund distributed 204,582 seedlings of mango, orange, pineapple, lychee to fruit producers in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala, Zambezia, Tete, Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Niassa.

Source: AIM