Nyusi urges increased production in Cabo Delgado

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Nyusi urges increased production in Cabo Delgado

7:46 CAT | 04 May 2017

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the population of Nangade district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, to increase their production and productivity in order to make development projects viable and thus guarantee the welfare of all Mozambicans.

He was speaking at a rally in the Ntamba administrative post at the start of a three day working visit to Cabo Delgado.

People at the rally complained to the President that there is no cashew processing factory in Nangade, although this district is one of the main producers of cashew nuts in the province. A factory did once exist but has been closed. Other concerns raised by speakers at the rally included the lack of a bank in the district, and the need to expand the national electricity grid, and the health and education services. It was also alleged that there is a shortage of medicines at the local centre and that health staff mistreat people seeking medical assistance.

In response, Nyusi recalled that in the 2014 general election campaign he had promised to do all in his power to develop the country, and those promises are now contained in the government’s five year programme for the 20156-2019 period.

However, he added, in his first two years in office Mozambique faced a series of constraints including severe drought in some parts of the country and floods in other parts. The situation was made worse by “political instability” – a reference to the low level insurrection waged by the Renamo rebels last year.

“This affected productive capacity and consequently reduced the financial resources necessary for investment”, he said.

Bu the situation was now “tending to normalise”, said Nyusi, with an improvement in production levels, including in Cabo Delgado.

This year “there will be no hunger in Cabo Delgado”, said Nyusi, since the province was producing more than at any time in the past five years.

The President urged his audience to grow more – both food crops and cash crops. “With more production, there will be more resources, which should be used in development projects”, he said.

Some of the concerns raised at the rally should soon be solved. Asked by Nyusi to speak, a representative of the Commercial and Investment Bank (BCI), the second largest commercial bank in the county, announced that a BCI branch is being built in Nangade town. Construction will take about three months.

As for the cashew industry, a businessman in this area promised that the processing plant will be reopened as soon as conditions allow.

After the rally, Nyusi travelled on to Nangade town to inaugurate a new water supply system.

Source: AIM