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Mozambique: Cashews and Co-ops help farmers earn more
The cashew trees turning northern Mozambique’s landscape green are also producing tons of valuable nuts for export as USAID helps the country try to regain its place as the world’s leading exporter of cashews.
At Condor—the largest cashew processing factory in Mozambique—600 men and women fill the factory floors with their chatter and their hard work, steaming the nuts, removing their outer shells, cleaning patiently all clinging skins, sorting them, and then sealing them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide to kill all unwanted organisms before shipment.
“We are paying back USAID” for the loan it gave to start the factory, said manager Americo Matos, 28, who moved here from Portugal to run the operation.
USAID also supports planting improved varieties of cashew trees. In 2006, the Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA), which has been working with USAID support for 15 years in Mozambique, helped to plant 5,000 cashew trees, which are expected to produce triple the yield per tree when the plants
With some 80 percent of the people of Mozambique living in the countryside—mainly off small scale farming—aid projects that can help them grow and sell their produce are bound to reduce the poverty that still stifles development.
USAID is trying a new approach here—getting small farmers with one or two hectares of land to become “emerging” farmers who increase their farm size to 20 hectares or more. Stephen Gudz, who heads the CLUSA team in northern Mozambique, said that when farmers expand cultivation they can buy seed and fertilizer at discounts, buy or rent farm equipment, and sell large volumes of produce that attract buyers and give the farmer clout in the market place.
Aside from cashews, USAID assistance goes to produce sesame for export to the Middle East; soybeans to serve as feed for the burgeoning chicken industry; and sweet potatoes for local consumption. U.S. assistance also helped 20,000 farmers form a producer cooperative called IKURU, which cleans and sells sesame, ground nuts, and corn.
American farmers have long known that when they form such cooperatives to improve production and market their produce, they can vastly increase their income. “I’d like to have enough money to invest in equipment that would clean and grade my sesame seeds,” said Moises Rapozo, the manager of the IKURU program.
Source: usaid.gov
The cashew trees turning northern Mozambique’s landscape green are also producing tons of valuable nuts for export as USAID helps the country try to regain its place as the world’s leading exporter of cashews.
At Condor—the largest cashew processing factory in Mozambique—600 men and women fill the factory floors with their chatter and their hard work, steaming the nuts, removing their outer shells, cleaning patiently all clinging skins, sorting them, and then sealing them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide to kill all unwanted organisms before shipment.
“We are paying back USAID” for the loan it gave to start the factory, said manager Americo Matos, 28, who moved here from Portugal to run the operation.
USAID also supports planting improved varieties of cashew trees. In 2006, the Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA), which has been working with USAID support for 15 years in Mozambique, helped to plant 5,000 cashew trees, which are expected to produce triple the yield per tree when the plants
With some 80 percent of the people of Mozambique living in the countryside—mainly off small scale farming—aid projects that can help them grow and sell their produce are bound to reduce the poverty that still stifles development.
USAID is trying a new approach here—getting small farmers with one or two hectares of land to become “emerging” farmers who increase their farm size to 20 hectares or more. Stephen Gudz, who heads the CLUSA team in northern Mozambique, said that when farmers expand cultivation they can buy seed and fertilizer at discounts, buy or rent farm equipment, and sell large volumes of produce that attract buyers and give the farmer clout in the market place.
Aside from cashews, USAID assistance goes to produce sesame for export to the Middle East; soybeans to serve as feed for the burgeoning chicken industry; and sweet potatoes for local consumption. U.S. assistance also helped 20,000 farmers form a producer cooperative called IKURU, which cleans and sells sesame, ground nuts, and corn.
American farmers have long known that when they form such cooperatives to improve production and market their produce, they can vastly increase their income. “I’d like to have enough money to invest in equipment that would clean and grade my sesame seeds,” said Moises Rapozo, the manager of the IKURU program.
Source: usaid.gov
Publication date: 12/10/2009
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