Mozambique makes $25m from cotton

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Mozambique produced 66 thousand tons of cotton and earned about $25 million from seed cotton in 2017/2018.

The country’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Higino Francisco, said the gains benefitted some 219,000 Mozambican families.

According to him, this figure is the result of a cultivated area of 181 thousand hectares, which resulted in the production of 66 thousand tons of cotton,

Higino Francisco de Marrule unveiled earning at the opening of the meeting of national minimum price of the crop in the western city of Tete.

The meeting, which is held under the theme “Promoting Cotton Technological Research to Increase Productivity in the Face of Climate Change,” is attended by members of the National Forum of Cotton Producers, Cotton Association of Mozambique, producers, administrators members of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

“Cotton is a factor that drives the development of our country by improving the quality…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria