Mopeia — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday that the preliminary assessment of the harvests from the 2015/2016 agricultural campaign indicates that overall production was “encouraging”, despite the severe drought that hit southern Mozambique and parts of the central provinces.
Speaking in Mopeia, in the central province of Zambezia, at the launch of the 2016/2017 campaign, Nyusi said the figures from the 2016 harvest show grain production of 2.4 million tonnes. 656,000 tonnes of assorted pulses were produced and 1.6 million tonnes of sweet potatoes.
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