Overview
The gateway to South East Africa. All the natural conditions required for successful agriculture – good soils and climate, access to land and water resources. In Mozambique alone, there are 10 million hectares of arable land and yet this potential has not been realized.
At present there is hardly any commercial agriculture and the rural population is almost entirely reliant on subsistence agriculture.
The MozAgri Investment identifies key constraints that have prevented successful development of commercial agriculture. It develops a roadmap for bringing 190,000 hectares of food and other crops under commercial irrigation, incorporating smallholder farmers. If achieved, a total investment by the public and private sectors of $7 million will generate annual farming revenues of $1 billion and will stimulate investment along the entire value chain.
Agricultural potential of BAGC
Today there are excellent prospects for a revival of agriculture in Mozambique, for a number of reasons:
- Large mining investments in Tete province, which will improve access to infrastructure in the region and boost local demand;
- Major public investments are underway to improve transport infrastructure, including the Beira port and Maputo Port;
- There is renewed international interest in investment in African agriculture in response to concerns about global food security, and governments in the region have begun to actively promote agriculture, recognizing that improved agricultural productivity has a major impact in reducing poverty;
MozAgri: Delivering the potential
Government of Mozambique, the private sector, local farmers and the international community. It aimsto stimulate major increasesin the agricultural productivity and incomes ofsmallholder farmers by catalyzing responsible private investment in the region.
Outcomes by 2040
- 190,000 hectares of profitable irrigated agriculture, producing world class yields, sold in domestic, regional and international markets · 350,000 jobs in farming and the associated value chain;
- Up to 200,000 smallholder farmer families with improved access to finance, inputs and markets, benefiting from improved yields and higher incomes. Net incomes predicted to more than triple, lifting 1 million people out of extreme poverty;
- At least 150 villages near commercial farms benefit from provision of power and water supply · Annual value of farming revenues of $1 billion;
