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5:52 CAT | 24 Mar 2021
FILE - For illustration purposes only. Corn on the cob. [File photo: Rob Bertholf /Wikimedia Commons]
It’s the end of the line for selling corn cobs [‘maçarocas’] in Mopeia district, Zambézia province. The local government decided to put the brakes on this activity – with the single-minded goal of guaranteeing food and nutritional security.
A note dated February 18th of this year, from the administration of the district of Mopeia bans the sale of maçaroca across the entire district, in response to recurring complaints of theft submitted by local producers.
“In view of this rise, and from now on, the public sale of corn cobs in the entire district is expressly prohibited,” reads a note from the district secretariat signed by Émuna Jamal Missia.
Anyone found carrying out such activity, whether producer or reseller, will be immediately detained and held accountable for contempt.
The district of Mopeia is located in the lower Zambeze, in Zambezia province. To the north, it borders the districts of Morrumbala and Derre; to the west, the district of Mutarara in Tete province; to the west and southwest it borders Caia and Marromeu in Sofala province; to the south the district of Chinde; and to the east the districts of Inhassunge and Nicoadala.
Agriculture is the predominant activity in the southern part of Mopeia, mainly associated with the existence of irrigated areas on the floodplain of the Zambezi, Cuacua and Lualua rivers and their tributaries.
Source: Carta de Moçambique
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