Mozambique: Nyusi inaugurates modern slaughterhouse in Tete – Watch

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Mozambique: Nyusi inaugurates modern slaughterhouse in Tete – Watch

5:20 CAT | 01 Aug 2022

Photo: Domingo

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday inaugurated in the western city of Tete the largest, and most modern meat processing unit in the country.

Known as the Canefood Processing Unit this slaughterhouse can process 200 head of cattle and 500 goats a day.

Construction of this unit began in 2019, and Nyusi said it is in line with the government’s programme “Industrialise Mozambique”.

“With this undertaking, we have accepted high quality standards, and we are integrating the family livestock sector into the national market and potentially the foreign market, with the purpose of generating income and improving living conditions for rural families, in a province with excellent conditions for livestock activity”, declared the President.

According to Nyusi, the technical characteristics of the slaughterhouse meet the highest standards of international certification for slaughter, processing, and conservation, and opens prospects that Mozambique can become a reference point in the production of quality red meat.

“This slaughterhouse”, he said, “will contribute to the gradual elimination of the practice of indiscriminately butchering animals in the streets, without appropriate sanitary conditions, which is an attack on public health”.

Nyusi praised the fact that this unit will allow the use of animal by-products, such as blood and skins. He noted that Canefood meets high standards of environmental sustainability, notably a system which allows waste water to be recycled.

He said that, because of its strategic importance in the red meat production value chain, the unit has benefitted from public financing through preferential lines of credit provided by the World Bank, the African Development Bank (ADB), and the Catalytic Fund, through the government’s agricultural development programme, Sustenta.

“No less important”, added Nyusi, “was Canefood joining the programme to integrate family agriculture into productive value chains, in the framework of Sustenta, which will allow small family livestock farmers to have access to this slaughterhouse as a preferential market”.

There are about 2.2 million head of cattle in Mozambique, and 16 per cent of these animals are in Tete. The county also has about 4.9 million small ruminants (such as goats and sheep).

Watch the TVM report.