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Nampula: Five Districts Benefit from Programme for Inclusive Development of Agri-Food Value Chains

Nampula: Five Districts Benefit from Programme for Inclusive Development of Agri-Food Value Chains

Five districts in Nampula province have been chosen to benefit from actions under the Programme for the Inclusive Development of Agri-Food Value Chains (PROCAVA), a government initiative that will cover a total of 17,775 producer families, the Agência de Informação de Moçambique reported this Thursday, July 18 .

According to the agency, PROCAVA is co-financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government and has an estimated overall budget of around 9.4 billion meticals (150 million dollars), with 4.5 billion meticals (72.5 million dollars) earmarked for the first phase and 4.8 billion meticals (77.5 million dollars) for subsequent phases.

Data to which AIM has had access indicates that PROCAVA has been implemented since May 2020 in 75 districts in all the country’s provinces (except Maputo city), and is due to end its activities in June 2030.

In Nampula, the districts of Rapale, Meconta, Mogovolas, Monapo and Murrupula, located in the interior, were chosen to receive interventions from this initiative. The programme kicked off a few days ago with the delivery of 225 female goats to 129 family producers and 11 associations.

Egídio Matimba, from the PROCAVA implementation team, said that this initiative aims to contribute to poverty reduction, improved food and nutrition security and resilient livelihoods, with a view to achieving an inclusive rural transformation.
‘By the end of PROCAVA, it is hoped to reach 180,500 beneficiary families, mostly small farmers living in rural areas, adopting approaches that contribute to the effective participation and involvement of women (at least 50 per cent), young people (30 per cent) and vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities,’ he said.

The source said that the initiative must ensure the effective integration of aspects of climate adaptation, land tenure security, natural resource management and nutrition.

‘The programme’s development objective is to increase the income of rural women, men and young people by promoting agri-food value chains that are resilient to climate change, namely: horticulture, cassava, red meat (goats and cattle), legumes and poultry, through interventions to increase production levels, productivity, market links and the creation of a favourable environment,’ he explained.

Egídio Matimba explained that the programme is structured around three interconnected components – improving production and market links, market-oriented infrastructures that are resilient to climate change, and institutional and policy strengthening.

Women working with coffee seedlings

In Nampula, following on from PROCAVA’s implementation actions, we would highlight the training of extension workers and 520 community extension agents, including small farmers and contact breeders, community vaccinators and nutrition promoters, and investments in the production of basic seeds for various crops.

In addition, 17 infrastructures have been set up, such as cattle handling corridors, goat management centres, cassava processing units and slaughterhouses.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADER) is the lead institution for implementing PROCAVA, with the Fundo de Fomento Agrário e Extensão Rural, Fundo Público (FAR, FP) as the organisation responsible for coordination.

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