Maputo — Sugar production in Mozambique will decline this year because of the drought hitting sugar production areas in the south and centre of the country.
According to Joao Jeque, the executive director of the Mozambican Association of Sugar Producers (APAMO), in 2015 the sector produced 3.3 million tonnes of sugar cane, but the drought guarantees that this amount cannot be produced in the current campaign.
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