Chinese entrepreneurs are going to set up a sesame processing and export centre to China near the Chonguene dock in Gaza province, southern Mozambique.
According to Rádio Moçambique, the national broadcaster, the move is the result of an agreement between the governments of Mozambique and China.
The plan was put forward by a delegation of Chinese businesspeople who are in Gaza province as part of a visit by the vice-governor of Hubei province, Wu Haitao.
Initially, the Chinese intend to support Gaza province by supplying qualified seed and transferring technology for the production of sesame, a crop considered to have a high commercial yield.
The Chinese businessmen are also committed to absorbing all sesame production, which is why they have asked the Gaza provincial government to mass-produce this crop among producers.
“We would like to have our own company centre for processing and exporting sesame at the port of Gaza. And not only are we going to promote the development of this variety, but we’re also going to buy it after it’s been harvested,” they asked.
Reacting to this claim, the governor of Gaza, Margarida Mapandzene Chongo, assured the Chinese businesspeople that the government is already working to massify sesame cultivation in all the districts of the province, especially in the north.
“We are working so that more districts are producing sesame, where we have around 366 hectares that are going to be prepared for sesame production and, above all, with the market that we already have, this is what will give our producers more strength to expand as quickly as possible,” assured the governor of Gaza.
(AIM)
