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Tete governor delivers eight tractors – Mozambique
8:35 CAT | 27 Aug 2018
Photos: Agencia de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Zambeze Facebook
The governor of the western Mozambican province of Tete, Paulo Auade, on Friday symbolically delivered eight tractors to three managers who provide services to peasant farmers, with the aim of stimulating mechanised agriculture in this province.
Thus Tete now has 59 tractors in agricultural machinery stations set up by the Zambezi Valley Agency, under a programme which seeks to boost agricultural mechanisation throughout the central region of Mozambique (Sofala, Manica, Zambezia and Tete provinces).
Speaking at the delivery ceremony, Auade said the tractors are improving agricultural production and productivity in the province. With ploughing mechanised, peasants have been able to increase the areas under cultivation.
“We urge you to use these tractors well, and return the money in order to buy other tractors for other producers”, said Auade.
“By setting up agricultural machinery stations, the government intends to encourage mechanisation which will increase the yields per hectare of peasant farmers”, added the governor.
Currently, the entire Zambezi Valley now has 49 agricultural machinery stations, providing services to farmers. The four provinces in the region have 177 tractors between them. They increase production because peasants are no longer reliant on manual labour with short handled hoes to till the land.
Auade also delivered three trucks to transport fresh and dried fish, in order to improve the marketing of the fish caught on the artificial lake behind the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi.
Source: AIM
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