Crop Data
This is the entire and most recent version of Mozambique agricultural production. It covers the 1999-2022 period, and the spreadsheet includes the following tabs: data, crop, season, admin and production system. There are 6,188 rows.
Most of the results, except for 2020, are linked to the Ad1 level. In 2020, Ad1 and Ad2 results are available, therefore, a potential over-lapping of data. Will there be other years coming with AD2 results?
The spatial admin evolution used here includes a 1990, 2013, and 2016 set of FNIDs/boundaries. Of these, only the 1990 and 2013 annual Spatial sets are available from the EWT. Many changes were made in 2016, so I have constructed a 2016 version here. I found almost no evidence of changes in 2021, for which the EWT does have a set of shape files/FNIDs. There are a number of FNIDs/boundaries in that set which I can not confirm as AD2 units (eg. the Lacs).
Conclusions: A new spatial dataset for 2016 is needed, and its FNIDS and changes in relationships are shown in the “Admin” tab. In my opinion, a 2021 spatial set is not needed.
A spreadsheet tab named “EWT_Changes” shows changes that should be carried out, and/or considered for the existing 1990 and 2013 spatial shapefiles and FNIDs and for a 2016 version. The 1990 and 2013 changes are fairly minor naming changes and one deletion.
One feature of the 2013 Spatial data set that can cause confusion is that multiple Ad2 names/FNIDS in 1990, which have not changed in any way by 2013, have different Ad2 extension codes (E.G. Xai-Xai MZ1990A20213 becomes Xai-Xai MZ2013A20211 in 2013.
Note that I have included a column titled “Year”, which indicates how Mozambique refers to the ag year which crosses over the January 1 boundary. This is end-aligned, or harvest aligned, as all other southern African countries.
The “Season” tab includes verified season start and end dates for the “Main” harvest/season, “Winter”, “Rice”, and “cotton” seasons.
The “Crop” tab displays crop codes used for Mozambique. Several crop codes used in this data file may need to be entered/changed in FDW to accommodate crop production in MZ.
Source organizations are only two (in Portuguese, without accents, and with acronyms). The previous Source_org entry, “Directorate ……” is just an office in the Ministerio de Agricultura, so I’ve changed it to the Ministry.
Source docs are four, including “FEWS Agro Maps”, a mix of English and Portuguese entries, none with non-English characters.
Survey type entries include one set of “Alt_crop_final” entries for the case in which FEWS Agro Map data effectively replaced missing Ministry ag survey, or original Ministry survey estimates are considered less reliable than the Ministry’s later re-evaluation and publication of 2000-2010 maize estimates.
I think this file is ready for a review. Last update: January 15, 2025
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Summary table
ISO 3166-1 codes | Alpha 2: MZ, Alpha 3: MOZ, Numeric: 508 |
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Administrative units | Provincia and Cidade Capital, Distrito, Posto administrativo |
Agricultural seasons | First and second |
Major crops | Maize, rice, sorghum, millet |
Country food security context
Statistical reporting units
Mozambique usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.
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Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on. |
Admin 1: There are ten admin 1 provincias in Mozambique and one Cidade capital, Maputo City.
Admin 2: Distritos. Most provincias contain 9-18 distritos.
Admin 3: Postos administrativos or localidades (localities).
A fourth type of administrative structure, outside of the hierarchy described above, the municipio, primarily concerns approximately 65 of the larger cities and towns in the country.
The FDW contains relationship tables which define four annual sets of boundaries (Admin 0-2 for 1990, 2013, 2016 and 2021) for Mozambique. Each describes the temporal and hierarchical relationships of statistical reporting units at a specific point of time. Taken together, they describe a genealogy of changes in Mozambican statistical reporting units between 1990 and the present.
Crop Data
Explore our crop data.
View our documentation on using the Crop Domain.
Mozambique crop data available in the FDW cover a period running from 1999 to 2023.
Crop estimate data sources
There is no central database of crop statistics for Mozambique, nor for most other domain data of interest for food security purposes. Most annual statistics are, and have been, published in annual reports over the years. It also appears that in some years, no annual reports have been published for these datasets.
The Ministerio da Agricultura e Desenvolvimiento Rural website is the most likely site where crop statistics for the country may be found. Under the main menu choice Estatisticas, the Inquerito Agrario Integrado is the most likely publication series containing annual crop statistics.
A second location where crop statistics and information about the country’s agriculture may be found is at the web site of the Instituto Nacional de la Estatistica (INE).
Year and season definition
The annual agricultural year runs between September 1 and August 31 of the next year and is frequently described with a two-year notation. The year is often referred to by the second of the two years (end-aligned).
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Example: 2022 refers to September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022. |
There are two primary agricultural seasons:
Primera epoca: September to March of the next year
Segunda epoca: March to end of August
Occasionally, separate growing seasons for rice and cotton seasons are given:
Rice: November to May
Cotton: January to end of August
Primary crops
Principal crops include:
Food crops: maize, rice, sorghum, and millet
Commercial crops: tea, cotton, sugarcane, coconut, macadamia, and sesame
Production systems
Annual crop statistics are often broken out by at least two different production systems (PS):
Small and medium producers
Large producers (generally commercially-oriented farming operations)
Small producers constitute more than 98.3% of the country’s farming entities, while medium comprise about 1.7%, and commercial are only .03% of the total.
Crop statistics context
Source document entries in the FDW crop data records often include sets of Alt_ data. Alt (alternative) data generally duplicates other data points in the dataset, while also offering some unique insight not available from the default data. It should only be used if and when it answers a specific user’s questions better than the default dataset.
The Alt series in the Mozambique crop data provides a breakout of crop statistics by both: a) small and medium producers, and b) large-scale producers. As it is not consistently available for each year, it has a smaller-range of potential uses for analysis, and is therefore indicated as Alt data.
Crop statistics methodology
A full description of the methodology used in the recent 2023 crop survey carried out by the Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural may be found in pages 15-29 of the report published following that assessment.