Niassa: Global production reached more than 15 billion meticais in 1st half

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Niassa: Global production reached more than 15 billion meticais in 1st half

1:53 CAT | 19 Aug 2016

Notícias / Prime minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário (R), arriving in Lichinga, Niassa, seen here with provincial governor Arlindo Chilundo

Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario, presently on a working visit to Niassa province, praised the investments made in this region of the country, stressing that they correspond to the government’s priorities.

Prime Minister do Rosario began a four-day working visit to the northern province yesterday and learnt that global production in Niassa reached more than 15 billion meticais in the first half of this year. This represents an increase by 8.5 percent compared to the same period last year, when the province had reached only fourteen billion meticais.

The agriculture, tourism, industry and trade and fishing sectors are the main contributors to the development in Niassa, according to a report the Niassa government presented yesterday to the prime minister.

The document, presented by the governor of Niassa, Arlindo Chilundo, indicated that the production of cereals and cash crops and forest plantations were the main drivers of the province’s economy.

During his four-day visit, the prime minister today visits works on the Lichinga-Litunde section of national highway 14, the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Lichinga-Cuamba railway line and pine and eucalyptus plantations in Chinbunila district.

Source: Rádio Moçambique