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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday inaugurated a new pasta production line in Beira operated by the food processing company MEREC.
Speaking at the ceremony, Nyusi stated that the project has various objectives, which includes increasing food production for the internal market, strengthening the linkages with the agricultural sector, substituting imports, and developing the value chain.
The President urged other companies to replicate this project in other provinces with good port logistics to reduce the asymmetries in industrial development which currently favour Maputo, Nampula, and Sofala.
In addition, he encouraged MEREC to promote, in the medium and long term, wheat processing and added that he will raise the current constraints faced by the company with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the tax authorities.
Speaking on behalf of MEREC, Mhamud Charania said that the new production line is the company’s fourteenth and is the largest in terms of capacity, being capable of producing 102 tonnes of pasta per day and generating 34 new jobs.
He added that the project was financed through a partnership with the bank Millennium Bim and incorporates technologies developed in Italy. With the addition of this production line, the company’s output from the factory in Beira will grow to 234 tonnes per day or eight thousand tonnes per month.
During the ceremony, Mhamud Charania formally handed over to the President ten tonnes of corn flour and ten tonnes of pasta for the victims of terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
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