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Agri-Business Sector Mozambique

The Agri-Business Sector in Mozambique 2020

Stephen Timm | Mozambique | 07 April 2020

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Report Coverage

This report on the Agri-business Sector in Mozambique describes the state and size of the sector and influencing factors and trade information with details on sub-sectors such as maize, cassava, rice, nuts, cotton, coffee sugar, dairy, tobacco and livestock, among others. There are profiles of 13 companies in the sector including major tobacco companies British American Tobacco, Emperor Tobacco and Mozambique Leaf Tobacco. Profiles of agri companies include Olam Mozambique, diversified group Mozambique Holdings Companhia Agricola JFS and Guernsey-domiciled Agriterra.

The Agri-Business Sector in Mozambique

The majority of Mozambique’s agricultural sector is made up of subsistence farming, mostly on small family farms, and commercial agriculture is limited. Maize and cassava, the main food staples, are grown by 80% of all Mozambican smallholder farmers and cover over a third of cultivated land. The commercial farming sector is dominated by large farms producing sugar, soybeans, bananas, rice, vegetables, nuts, cotton, tobacco and more recently macadamia nuts. Poultry farming has also grown. While poor infrastructure and telecommunications have long constrained growth in the sector, some crop yields have begun to improve.

Challenges

The sector faces several challenges including poor road infrastructure, rudimentary farming techniques and reliance on rain and difficulty accessing credit and markets. Cyclones which were estimated to have destroyed 500,000 hectares of crops in central Mozambique, affected agricultural production, and maize production was expected to have fallen by more than 15% in 2019.

Investment in the Sector

Despite the challenges, there has been some investment including in organic sugar processing plant, a new white sugar refinery, construction of a chicken breeding and egg-laying unit, cooking oil refinery and various processing plants. Olam Mozambique in 2018 relaunched its production of seed cotton in the districts of Morrumbala and Derre, in the province of Zambézia, after the plant was shut for three years.

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The Agri-Business Sector in Mozambique 2020

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Table of Contents

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1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. COUNTRY INFORMATION 1
2.1. Geographic Position 2
3. DESCRIPTION OF THE INDUSTRY 5
3.1. Industry Value Chain 9
4. SIZE OF THE INDUSTRY 15
5. STATE OF THE INDUSTRY 18
5.1. Local 18
5.1.1. Corporate Actions 27
5.1.2. Regulations 27
5.1.3. Enterprise Development and Social Economic Development 28
5.2. Continental 29
5.3. International 29
6. INFLUENCING FACTORS 29
6.1. Government Support 29
6.2. Economic Environment 31
6.3. Technology, Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation 32
6.4. Foreign Aid 33
6.5. Environmental Concerns 33
6.6. Labour 34
6.7. Marketing 35
7. COMPETITION 35
7.1. Barriers to Entry 36
8. SWOT ANALYSIS 36
9. OUTLOOK 36
10. INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS 37
11. REFERENCES 38
11.1. Publications 38
11.2. Websites 38
APPENDIX 1 40
Summary of Notable Players 40
COMPANY PROFILES 44
AGRITERRA LTD 44
CITRUM - CITRINOS DO UMBELUZI S.A. 47
COMPANHIA AGRICOLA JFS SARL 49
COMPANHIA DE SENA S.A.R.L. 51
CONDOR NUTS LTDA 53
FRUTAS LIBOMBOS LTDA 54
MARAGRA ACUCAR S.A. 56
MEADOW MOZAMBIQUE LTDA 58
MOZAMBIQUE HOLDINGS LTDA 60
MOZFOODS S.A. 63
OLAM MOZAMBIQUE LTDA 65
PLEXUS MOZAMBIQUE LTDA 67
RIFT VALLEY CORPORATION LTD 69