Mozambique: Farmers Have Been Abandoned, New Government Survey Shows

The main income for 75% of Mozambicans families comes from farming but two thirds of them (3 million families) farm less than 1 hectare and most do not grow enough to feed their families, the Agricultural Census (CAP) published Wednesday (20 May) shows.

Mozambique has a cultivated area of 6.5 mn hectares,18% of the 36 million hectares of arable land available, Minister of Planning and Development Salim Vala said at the report launch. “This means that the future of national economic…