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3:02 CAT | 21 Oct 2022
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A consortium of private funds is investing 225 million meticais (about 3.5 million US dollars at the current tax rate) for the construction of a cashew nut processing plant, in Guezane, Mandlakazi district, in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza.
According to Super Boa Farm, Ltd, owner of the project, construction works of the new plant will be completed in two years, providing 200 permanent jobs. But it is expected that at least one thousand jobs will be created over the next five years, when fully operational.
To that effect, the Secretary of State in Gaza, Amosse Macamo, laid recently the first stone for the construction of the factory reports the daily paper “Notícias”.
The company’s executive director, Alexandre Mutemba, explained that with the initiative cashew nut production will increase and this will contribute to reducing poverty among the local families and to mobilising more jobs and tax contributions.
In a first phase, the initiative will directly involve over 500 people and, indirectly, about 1,200 families, mainly small producers of the districts of Mandlakazi and Chibuto, both in Gaza; Mabote, Panda and Funhalouro in Inhambane.
Super Boa Farm financial director, Isac Nhantumbo, says that at the beginning the project will cover an area of one thousand of the seven thousand hectares planned.
“At this moment, we have about 600 cashew seedlings planted since the beginning of the preparatory activity in April. Once it starts operating, the factory will process cashew nuts, as well as produce spirits, biodiesel and charcoal”, he added.
For his turn, Amosse Macamo says that Mandlakazi has a high productive potential, occupying the top position at the provincial level, in terms of cashew nut production.
He also explained that Gaza province is promoting the production of cashew nuts through the initiative “One family – 100 cashew trees”, which includes the creation of polyclonal fields and nurseries to ensure the multiplication and distribution of seedlings.”
As a result of the implementation of this initiative, about 74,550 cashew seedlings have been produced so far and planted over an area of 1,043 hectares, numbers that are expected to increase significantly by the end of the year.
“During the first semester of this year we sold about 6,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, from the 14,000 initially planned”, announced Macamo.
Source: AIM
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