Mozambique: “Prioritise national production before thinking about importing products” – Watch

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Mozambique: “Prioritise national production before thinking about importing products” – Watch

10:03 CAT | 20 Apr 2021

Photo: TVM

The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Carlos Mesquita, is urging entrepreneurs to prioritise national production over imported products.

Speaking this Monday in Maputo during the closing of the Economic Seminar on Industrialization, Minister Mesquita said that the growth of domestic industry depended on Mozambicans themselves.

“We need to start assuming that we need to end certain addictions. The addiction to tomatoes that jump the border, onions that jump the border, corn that jumps the border. We have to change, we have to believe in ourselves,” he said.

“Nobody is going to do it for us. If we do not break this addiction, this is what we will leave for the generations to come. And then they will ask us what we were doing. Nobody is going to do it for us, the responsibility is ours and it is not for now, it is for yesterday.”

Furthermore, the minister noted, one of the barriers to industrial development in Mozambique lay in the price disparities between products.

Watch the TVM report below.