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Angonia Photo Album (Tete province, Mozambique)

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Tobacco (2)

Mozambique Leaf Tobacco (MLT), a Malawian company, is the only significant agro-business in the Study Area. Under its contract farming scheme, the company provides inputs and technical extension to contract farmers as they enter into the contract each year, and guarantees the purchase of their harvest. Ironically, those locally produced tobacco leaves are processed in Malawi. For there is no local processing facility and the production volume is still too small to justify the construction of one in the area.

Cowpea

Kidney bean and cowpea (sasage in Japanese) are the two main pulses (beans and peas) produced in the Study Area. Cultivated area is 30,000ha for kidney beans and 5,000ha for cowpea. Maize, by the way, is by far the most dominant crop in the Study Area. It is cultivated over 150,000ha (1997-99 average), accounting for 67% of the total area cultivated under all the main crops.

Coffee

By and large Mozambican people are not coffee drinkers. Yet, coffee is one of the most promising cash crops in the Study Area because of its market and sales potentials worldwide. Angonia is an ideal location for coffee growing at an altitude of 1,300m and with annual rainfall of 1,000mm. In Tete province, currently coffee is grown only at a mission operated farm in Tsangano near Angonia border (the right photo taken at the farm). Coffee grown there is for consumption at the mission and other missions in the area and Malawi, and thus not commercially distributed.

Photos by Ken Kozai (Sanyu Consultants)

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