PM Calls On Young Mozambicans To Farm
Maputo, 28 Feb (AIM) – Mozambican Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane on Monday called on young Mozambicans to view agriculture as an excellent business opportunity, and not as something painful that they must suffer.
Speaking in Maputo at the opening of a session of the Business Environment Monitoring Council, Maleiane said the government is carrying out a motivational approach to farming, which will ensure that agriculture is viewed by everybody, particularly youths, as a good investment.
He said that in 2022, agriculture made a significant contribution to the Mozambican economy, with a growth of 4.15 per cent.
Encouraging factors, Maleiane added, included the introduction of new technologies, expansion in access to credit, construction of access roads to markets, and technical assistance to farmers.
“We are modernising”, the Prime Minister said, “bringing a programme that makes agriculture a commercial activity, with job creation and mechanisation. But at the same time the agricultural research area is creating conditions to boost the income of the peasant family sector”.
This means, he added, that the government is integrating the family sector into the economy and the market, but at the same time laying the ground for increased exports, thus contributing to improving the balance of payments.
He reaffirmed the Government’s determination to speed up reforms included in the Action Plan for Improving the Business (PAMAN) 2019-2021.
Maleiane stressed in particular the revision of the Labour Law, which he claimed would encourage national and foreign investment; an Investment Law to simplify the requirements necessary for investors; and a guarantee of applying good international practices, thus bringing the law into line with the challenges of current investments.
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