Nyusi calls for increased food production

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Nyusi calls for increased food production

10:32 CAT | 18 Jun 2016

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has urged all Mozambicans not to allow themselves to be diverted from the national development agenda and the fight against poverty.

Speaking at a rally in Salamanga in Matutuine district, on the second day of a working visit to Maputo province, Nyusi stressed that overcoming poverty requires increasing production and productivity in order to guarantee self-sufficiency in food.

He believed that poverty was the root cause of conflict. “If we have a good life, we will overcome many conflicts”, he said. “The difficulties arise from the fact that we are poor”.

He said that Maputo province is fertile, and can supply other parts of the country, as well as foreign markets, but everything depended on commitment to production.

“Matutuine is already supplying the Zimpeto wholesale marked in Maputo city”, Nyusi added. “But it needs to improve its productive capacity, so that it can supply food to the entire province”.

At the rally, Nyusi praised the work done by Salamanga peasant association, and by China-Africa, a company that is increasing rice production in Matutuine.

Nyusi also made an unannounced visit to the provincial hospital in the city of Matola. He told reporters he made the visit, not because he was looking for problems, but because he had time to spare on his agenda for the day, and so he decided to see for himself how the hospital, which is only two years old, was working.

Leaders, he added, have the duty to know how the country’s institutions are functioning. During the visit, he received explanations from hospital staff, and stopped at various occasions to speak to patients who were waiting to be seen by doctors.

He was pleased to find that the hospital had a complaints book, which gave patients the freedom to write what they thought about the services they received. He found the book contained not only criticism of what patients disliked, but praise for areas where they thought the hospital was doing well.

“The performance of the hospital is not bad”, Nyusi said. “Naturally, there are aspects that we are going to analyse. My method of work is not to project what is bad, but to encourage what is good, and correct what we think has to be corrected”.

Source: AIM