According to NGO projects there is currently very few cattle in Niassa. There are no cattle farms of any size and all the milk and beef consumed in the province is imported and thus expensive. As the province has a large Muslim population and pork consumption is thus low, beef could be an important addition to people’s diet. Before the war there were farms of many thousands of cattle and the area is thus obviously capable of sustaining such initiatives. However, we believe that it will be a long time before cattle farming could be viable because of the need to educate people in animal husbandry, methods of meat preservation etc. N.B. confirm that tsetse flies are not a problem.
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