Mozambique: Zambezia Wants to Relaunch Tea Production

Maputo — The Director of Agriculture in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, Momed Vala, has announced that the provincial government intends to relaunch the production of tea in the province.

Zambezia was once a significant exporter of tea, and many thousands of people were employed in the 1970s by the state-owned tea company, Emocha. But when gangs of the apartheid-backed rebel movement Renamo rampaged across the tea-growing areas in the mid-198os, almost all the tea processing plants were destroyed.

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