Mozambique Blog

Alexandre Muacane, produtor de caju em Chiúre

Alexandre Muacuane, residente na aldeia de Milamba, distrito de Chiúre, Cabo Delgado, disse, “Por isso que voces vieram muitos aqui para facilitar o vosso trabalho.”  Ele reagia assim quando recebeu a visita de campo em Fevereiro deste ano quando se realizou a reunião da MozaCajú ao falar da necessidade de…

Mussa Assane Chionda, successful cashew farmer in Mueda

Mussa Assane Chionda is a cashew producer from Namatil village, Mueda disctict, in Cabo Delgado Province. Last season, he and his neighbors produced and aggregated quantity of 120 tons of cashew with MozaCajú assistance. When it was time to sell, he sent an SMS to the CommCare platform. …

Gaspar Carvalho, successful cashew farmer in Gilé

At the end of a MozaCajú training that closed with a Cost Benefit Analysis (using a real example), Gaspar Carvalho very humbly shared his experience and achievements obtained from his cashew farm. He already knew that his current yield of 3.2 kg / plant was quite low compared to other…

MozaCajú featured by US Government’s Feed the Future

MozaCajú was featured in the United States government Feed the Future monthly newsletter for January 2016: “Given the global demand for cashews, Feed the Future, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has invested $18 million in modernizing the Mozambican cashew sector in an effort to reconnect…

Mozambican firm eyes 41,000 tons processed cashew output

The chairman of the Cashew Industry Association (Aicaju), Mohammed Yunus Abdul Gaffar has said the country’s cashew processing companies will process 41,500 tons of nuts by the end of the year, a 66 percent increase compared to the 25,000 tons processed in 2014, APA can report on Friday. Addressing the…

A different approach to spurring farmer investment

“I have two wives,” he said—in English, surprisingly—then burst into laughter.  That was the only English I exchanged with Teotonio Pereira from Uala.  Continuing in Portuguese, I clarified that Teotonio does not actually have two wives, but he so frequently travels the several hours journey between his farms that it…