Mozambique: Automated forestry licensing begins
Portugal keen to explore Chokwé irrigation system
9:59 CAT | 29 Aug 2018
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Portugal’s secretary of state for forestry said on Wednesday he was keen to find Portuguese partners to explore the Chokwé irrigation scheme in Mozambique’s southwestern province of Gaza.
“We have the possibility of working with irrigation structures and we can look to several cases, in particular to Chokwé,” Miguel Freitas said, following a meeting in Mozambican capital Maputo with Mozambique’s minister of agriculture and food safety, Higino Marrule.
Mr Freitas also said on the sidelines of the third Forum of Agri-food Quality and Competitiveness organized by the Association of Young Farmers of Portugal that Portugal was interested in another project related to an exchange of knowledge between European and African youth in the agricultural area.
Chokwé’s irrigation system, the largest in the country, was set up in the 50s and implemented by the Mozambican state in the first years following its independence, however several development projects failed to succeed.
The management of the irrigation system was altered in 1977, giving way to the Agro Industrial Complex of Limpopo. It is one of the biggest in Mozambique.
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Source: Lusa
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