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The new cement factory based in Maputo province has the installed capacity to produce two million tonnes a year and five thousand tonnes of clinker a day, thus helping to reduce imports.
Five new factories, which began operation in the last five years (2020 to 2024), in Maputo, Nampula, and Niassa provinces, have contributed to the creation of 22,960 jobs.
According to the Minister of Industry and Trade, Silvino Moreno, who was speaking, on Wednesday, in Maputo, at the opening of the Coordinating Council of his Ministry, taking place under the slogan: “Creating bases for sustainable integrated development”, the factories in question produce cement, cooking oil, pasta, beer and artificial hair.
The new cement factory based in Maputo province has the installed capacity to produce two million tonnes a year and five thousand tonnes of clinker a day, thus helping to reduce imports. The Cuamba vegetable oil production plant, in Niassa province, can extract 25 tonnes of crude oil and refine 10 tonnes, thus also reducing imports”, he said.
In the current five-year period, the minister said, the industrial sector has also made progress in pasta production, with an increase in installed capacity to 102 tonnes per day, for national consumption and export.
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According to the minister, during the same five-year period, 72.3 million tonnes of various agricultural products were marketed, which was a growth of 2.3% in 2020, 4.5% in 2021 and 14.3% in 2022 and 2023.
