The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, said this Wednesday, 31 August, in Maputo, during the first agrarian research symposium, that the country already has technology for wheat production.
“The team of wheat researchers has concluded its research programme. We already have some varieties of high productive potential and adapted to the conditions of our country,” said Filipe Nyusi, stressing that “the results of the research [on wheat] indicate a productivity potential of 7t/ha in Niassa and of 4t/ha for other regions.”
“The subsequent steps now involve the release of the variety and dissemination of the technology, which will culminate in the massive multiplication of seeds and training of extension workers and producers,” the head of state says.
Nyusi points to “the lack of transfer and massification of the use of technology by the national productive fabric” as one of the main problems that make Mozambique one of the countries with the lowest rate of technology.
At the same time, the President of the Republic believes that “the major priority of the agriculture sector will be research and production of seeds, since the transformation of this sector begins with the link between research and production through extension workers.
In this sense, “the Government will, in the next two and a half years, allocate three billion meticais, directed towards the requalification of research and vaccine production laboratories, as well as pre-basic and basic seed multiplication fields (breeder seeds)”.
Filipe Nyusi highlights as the Government’s main current task “to ensure a good research base and transfer of technologies to producers, [circumstances on which rest] the essence of the implementation of the SUSTENTA programme”.
“The technological packages disseminated by SUSTENTA were defined based on the knowledge developed by researchers and were allocated by means of the matrix of national production, the potential for income generation, the supply of raw materials to local industry and the demand of the global market,” the President of the Republic annointed.
