Maputo, March 19, 2025 (Lusa) - Mozambique expects to raise around 2 billion meticais (€28.7 million) from the export of macadamia nuts, a high-yielding crop, in Maputo and Niassa provinces alone, in the current agricultural season, it was announced on Wednesday.

"We have very interesting experiences in Maputo and Niassa provinces," said Feliza Macome, director of the central services for kernel production and development, adding that this is a crop that many domestic entrepreneurs are already investing in.

According to the representative, Mozambique expects to export just over 6,000 tonnes of the product in the current 2024-2025 agricultural season from those two provinces, in the south and north.

"So the idea is to get more local growers to produce, process and export the fruit," she concluded, speaking to journalists.

Mozambique produced around 5,000 tonnes of macadamia during the previous agricultural season, according to government figures.

Data from the National Kernel Institute indicates that macadamia exports generated revenues estimated at US$27 million (€24.7 million), with an average price of US$3.735 (€3.4) per kilogramme.

Meanwhile, the British AgDevCo announced in 2024 that they are investing US$10 million (€9.2 million) in Mozambique's Dowson, a farm created by South African farmers in this case in the province of Manica, in the centre of the country, allowing them to expand avocado and macadamia production to 1,000 hectares.

In market information previously reported by Lusa, AgDevCo confirms the investment in this Mozambican agricultural producer, which has been operating in the district of Sussundenga since 2012, taking advantage of the local ‘ideal growing conditions’.

The company explains that so far 270 hectares of macadamias and 174 hectares of avocados have been planted under irrigation and that AgDevCo's investment will allow Dowson to "expand production to 1,000 hectares over the next five years".

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