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Flora Comercial

(Commercial)

Projects Assisting “The conditions are in place for us to achieve financial

4000 Farmers independence. We have, here in Nhamatanda, companies
that buy cereals, and we will no longer have the challenge
of not producing enough because we have large
quantities of seed, which is of a quality that guarantees us
a lot of productivity. We have nothing to regret but rather,
In Lamego village, a shop called “Flora Comercial”, we’d like to thank AFAP for this initiative”.
belonging to Flora Mostiço, was established.
Mostiço said that she wants to be able to increase the
Farmers said that the shop created conditions for them to number of farmers who attended the field days within
be able to produce and sell their crops. the last two years.

The president of Agripel Association, António Meque, said “We have good relations with farmers’ associations, which
that the farmers would now only have to worry about will allow us to set up demo plots in their fields, which will
infrastructure, such as access roads. be closer by,” she said.

The Nhamatanda’s administrator, Tomé José, applauded
the initiative introduced by AFAP to try and replicate the
results achieved in the demonstration fields.
Government Allow He said that the idea of setting up demonstration fields

Demonstration Camps was to help farmers gain scientific knowledge.

“We want to appeal to farmers who are here to take
advantage of knowledge demonstrated in these fields. We
want to challenge our farmers to produce more. We thank
AFAP and its partners for this initiative,” he concluded.

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