Following the launch of the agricultural marketing campaign in April this year, the country has already sold over six million tonnes of various products out of a projected volume of around 15 million tonnes. These indicators represent a level of achievement of 39% and a growth in the order of 6% compared to the same period of 2020.
For this purpose, products such as cassava with 2,043,110 tonnes, maize with 1,825,268 tonnes, vegetables in the order of 836,076 tonnes and beans with 363,563 tonnes stood out in this marketing year.
This result, considered positive by a source from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC), was achieved in an atypical season and had a stimulus of about 199 rotary operations of agricultural commercialisation, which were financed by the Government and partners, in an amount of approximately 216 million Meticais, to improve and increase the sale of agricultural products.
This movement was created with the purpose of alleviating the constraint in the lack of financial resources for the purchase of production from the hands of the peasants and is being an added value to reverse the scenario.
It is noted that in this component 3,069 tonnes of various products were conserved, carried over from 2020, which allowed 70 operators, 65 of which are small farmers and traders, and five large agricultural marketing operators, to ensure the continuity of supply of products as well as the stabilization of the price in local markets in times of scarcity.
