Small-scale food processing sector in Mozambique

Imani development (pvt) limited
in collaboration with M.J. Cardoso, Austral

Working document series no. 8013

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Overview

The purpose of the study was to enable CTA to develop an understanding of the needs of the small-scale food processing sector, particularly in the areas of management and market information systems.

This report has seven chapters: ·

• Chapter 1 - Introduction. ·
• The second chapter, the General profile of the country, gives general information on the macro-economic and business environment, agricultural and agro-processing production, and domestic and external trade policy. ·
• The Literature review, the third chapter, presents the results of the desk study. ·
• Chapter 4 - Market structure of the small-scale food processing sector, presents a profile of priority small-scale food processing subsectors and the results of the enterprise survey. ·
• The fifth chapter, Provision of support services and market facilitation, discusses the results of the service providers' survey. ·
• Chapter 6 - Agro-processing marketing information systems, reports on the current status of the management information system in Mozambique and the market information required. ·
• Chapter 7 - Conclusions and recommendations.

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