3.8 Million Farms in Mozambique

   The linked article below is not my perspective but the results of a recent study by the National Statistics Institute of Mozambique.  However, much like what I have been writing about, it gives an excellent quantitative glimpse into agriculture in Mozambique. 

    One of the most telling stats is that, "Mechanisation scarcely exists. Only 1.6 per cent of farms reported the use of tractors and 1.8 per cent the use of ploughs." That means that 96.6% of farms are worked completely by hand.   Also as a point of comparison, around 50% of the farms in the USA are larger than 250 acres (50 hectares), while in Mozambique 0.02% of the farms are larger than 250 acres.

For you Americans out there 1 hectare is equal to 2.47 acres.

 3.8 Million Farms in Mozambique