According to the government’s Centre for the Promotion of Agriculture (CEPAGRI), cited in the daily newspaper “Noticias”, this is most sugar Mozambique has ever exported.
All the sugar was exported to the European Union through the Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) under which Mozambique has tariff free access to the EU market.
According to CEPAGRI, Mozambique’s sugar production increased by two per cent in the 2012 campaign due to an eight per cent expansion in the area cultivated. In total 3.3 million tonnes of sugar cane was harvested, producing 396,719 tonnes of sugar and 130,357 tonnes of molasses. The total area cultivated was 45,917 hectares.
Last year 164,096 tonnes of sugar was sold in the domestic market of which 28,228 tonnes was white sugar. These sales represent a five per cent reduction over the previous year.
Mozambique imported 15,875 tonnes of sugar, because the mills do not yet produce enough refined (white) sugar to meet demand.
Post published in: Africa News