Mozambique

Olam began operations here in Mozambique in 1999, buying cashew in the Northern province of Nampula.

Today, we are one of the largest employers, with 800 staff and nearly 3,500 seasonal workers operating across 23 locations.

Get in touch with our Mozambique team:

mozambique@olamnet.com

With an extensive distribution network spanning most of Mozambique’s towns, our rice business has flourished following the launch of our award-winning Mama African and Royal Aroma brands.

We are now growing our edible oils distribution business through this same network. Our 2 refining facilities in Sofala and Maputo Provinces are providing further synergies between our edible oil processing and distribution business.

We also operate 3 cotton concessions in the North and Central regions, where we actively support some 40,000 farmers’ livelihoods. We ensure they receive the necessary inputs (like seeds and fertiliser) and financing to improve yields and productivity, and secure a ready market for their produce by buying directly from them.

Olam is also proud to provide work and livelihood for many women. At our cashew processing factories, as an example, over 90% of our 1,500 workers are women. We also continue to work with experts to improve our peanut, cashew, sesame and cotton sourcing operations, as well as strengthen our smallholder programmes.

Find out more about our products:

Cashews Find out more

Cotton Find out more

Wood Products Find out more

Meet The Team

We employ over 4,000 people across operations in Mozambique.

Sridhar Krishnan Senior Vice President and Cluster Head, East Africa

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26^th Sep, 2019

Press release

Olam shares tech with Wildlife Conservation Society’s landscape partnership to tackle deforestation

London Collaboration will improve coffee farmer productivity and livelihoods while reducing pressure on the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Indonesia Over 20,000 smallholder coffee farmers in southern Sumatra will benefit from a unique collaboration whereby global food and agri-business Olam International will grant use of its platform, the Olam Farmer Information System (OFIS), to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to tackle forest encroachment in the Bukit Barisan Selatan (BBSNP) landscape in southern Sumatra. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of coffee, with the majority grown by smallholder farmers in remote areas. The farmers face common challenges such as ageing trees, a lack of access to inputs, training and finance, and therefore typically have low yields. Their remoteness, and the length and complexity of the supply chain also makes traceability difficult. The Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (3,140 km2) in southern Sumatra is within one of Ind

20^th Sep, 2019

News

Setting the record straight on false allegations in World Rainforest Movement’s petition about Olam’s palm plantations in Gabon

In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, we want to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon. The petition makes three allegations: 1) Olam has deforested within traditional areas of the communities of Nanga and Ferra to create palm plantations; 2) we have expanded into the village lands on the left bank of the Dola river against the consent of the communities; 3) we have not fulfilled our promises to provide support to these villages. These allegations are false and unfounded. We want to set the record straight by sharing the facts, along with photographs and maps, to show what we are doing to conserve landscapes and support these communities in Gabon:

10^th Oct, 2019

Blog

The partnership re-imagining the rice value chain in Nigeria

In conversation with Reji George, VP Rice Nigeria, Olam International and Dr Ben Odoemena, Country Programme Officer, UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) – finalists of the 2019 P3 Impact Award in recognition of one of the first public-private partnerships to have transformative impact in Nigeria’s agricultural sector. The Value Chain Development Program (VCDP) established in 2015 by Olam, in partnership with the Nigerian Government and IFAD, is working to improve the livelihoods of smallholder rice farmers in Nigeria by increasing food security, creating jobs and opening market access.

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