The Zambezi Valley Development Agency, is since late 2019 promoting actions aimed at making agriculture a dynamic, integrated, prosperous, competitive, sustainable and development promoting activity, at the level of communities.
To this end, according to the delegate of the Zambezi Development Agency, Nuno Pinto Novo, his institution guarantees to increase the capacity to implement modern technologies and make available improved seeds, inputs, equipment and agricultural implements, with greater attention to the private and family sectors.
The source cited by Notícias, mentions that investments are under execution, since the 2020-2021 agricultural campaign, in the family and private agricultural sectors, so that all are aligned with respect to the transfer of technologies and introduction of new seed specialties of reno potato and vegetable crops, throughout the Zambezi Valley basin, with greater emphasis on the regions of the Angónia-Marávia highlands, in the province of Tete.
“We want to encourage the increase of the current productivity and competitiveness indexes to guarantee food and nutritional security, the provision of raw material for agro-processing and the creation of agricultural surpluses for the internal and external markets”, said Nuno Pinto.
Pinto said that the results of the variety tests of the reno potato seed in the last agricultural campaign, identified an acceptable variety, adequate to the climatic characteristics of the regions where it will be launched in the production fields of the private and family sectors, in the provinces of Tete and Manica, where positive results are expected at the end of the current agricultural harvest.
The priority, according to the source, is the achievement of a diversified agriculture, sustainable, competitive and productive, making the best use and utilization of natural resources and the existing potential.
In this sense, the Zambezi Development Agency, in coordination with national and international partners, is seeking funding to continue modernizing in agriculture, boosting trade and tourism as well as other sectors that increase production, consumption and promote exports.
Meanwhile, the body they are quoting avers that agency, through its partners, is coordinating access to agricultural credit to stimulate their transformation from family to commercial farmers. “We intend to equip farmers in the family and private sectors with improved techniques to raise productivity rates as well as income and food and nutritional security in communities,” Nuno Pinto concluded.
