USAID launches AgriFUTURO project  

USAID recently launched the new AgriFUTURO project at a ceremony in Maputo, where 100 people from the private sector, other donors, NGOs, and the Ministry of Agriculture were in attendance. The five-year, $20 million project will focus on improving the efficiency of agricultural value chains—or the stages of production, from the farm to the market—of nine key crops. The AgriFUTURO program will be based in the Nampula and Beira transport corridors in the north and central parts of the country, where it will focus on key crops that include mangos, bananas, pineapples, maize, soy beans, peanuts, cashews and plantation forestry.

Cashews will be one of nine crops on which AgriFUTURO will focus