Envoy challenges local traders to invest in Tete
The Malawi Consulate in Tete, Mozambique has challenged local traders to utilise existing business opportunities in the province where demand for Malawian products is growing.
Malawi’s Consular general for Tete and Zambezia provinces Happy Saka said in an interview last week that over the past months, the consulate got inquiries on various Malawian products, especially agricultural commodities.
The inquiries follow a joint business forum with the Mozambican Confederation of Economic Association in Lilongwe and a joint trade mission with Ministry of Trade in Quelimane in Zambezia Province last year.
Said Saka: “The consulate is now flooded with requests for various Malawian products.
“The business openings are wide in Tete. Regrettably, the challenge is on supply which is low. It is critical for local traders to explore and expand markets for their products.”
Product promoter at the consulate Celcia Dos Santos Boaventura said in an interview that chilies, kilombero rice, Mzuzu Coffee, Chombe tea, soya beans, groundnuts, Malawi Gin and orange squash are some of the products on high demand in Tete. Chamber for Small and Medium Enterprises executive director James Chiutsi said local traders were ready to conduct international trade, but the challenge was sharing trade information.
