date:Aug 12, 2013
Since 2000, sugar production in Mozambique showed a sustained increase as economic and political stability attracted new investments in the industry. Post forecasts that this trend will continue the 2013/14 MY (from May 2013 to April 2014) and that sugarcane production will increase to almost 3.8 million tons based on an increase in hectares planted.
The sugarcane area is expected to increase by about five per cent to 48,000 hectares in the 2013/14 MY. In the 2012/13 MY, the sugarcane area harv