Mozambique’s 2024–25 macadamia export target: forecast, not outturn

In March 2025, Mozambique’s government expected macadamia exports from Maputo and Niassa to bring in around 2 billion meticais during the 2024–25 agricultural season. Lusa reported a target of just over 6,000 tonnes from those two provinces, attributing it to a government representative.

Those figures were a forecast, not a recorded export result. The report did not specify an in-shell or kernel basis, or moisture content. They therefore cannot be compared directly with crop figures that use a stated product and moisture basis.

Separate investment evidence concerns Manica, outside the two provinces in that forecast. In a release distributed on 1 December 2023, AgDevCo said it had finalised a US$10 million mezzanine debt investment in Dowson, a Sussundenga-based macadamia and avocado producer.

The announcement described 270 hectares of macadamias and 174 hectares of avocados already planted under irrigation, with a plan to expand production to 1,000 hectares over five years. That target covered the mixed-crop operation; it was not a claim of 1,000 hectares of macadamias or confirmation that expansion had been completed.

This archive account corrects the investment announcement’s year from 2024 to 2023. AgDevCo’s statement supports the investment context, not independent corroboration of the government’s export forecast. No achieved 2024–25 export total is established by these sources.