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              <text>A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL FOR CEREAL&#13;
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              <text>The study addressed the challenges of low cereal production in the Central Region of&#13;
Mozambique. There is a persistent low level cereal production as evidenced by acute hunger&#13;
prevailing in the region, despite the condusive environment, example favourable climatic&#13;
conditions and good fertile soil for cereal production in this region.&#13;
The study sought to close the knowledge gap left by the scarcity of research in this area. More&#13;
specifically, this study investigated the main causative factors for the low production of cereals&#13;
in this part of the country. The study utilized the qualitative research paradigm, and multiple&#13;
technical methods were used in the investigation including interviews, field observation,&#13;
document review, questionnaires and group discussion as the main method of data collection.&#13;
Data were analysed and categorized for common themes and patterns. The central theme of the&#13;
analysis highlights the overall cereal production of the central region of Mozambique in relation&#13;
to the other regions. The findings revealed that cereal production in the central region of&#13;
Mozambique is very low due to a number of different interrelated number of factors, among&#13;
others lack of new or modern farming techniques such as irrigation, use of high yielding varieties&#13;
of seeds and utilization of mechanical power for cultivation of cereals on a large scale.&#13;
The concluding discussion addresses the implications for improving training approaches to&#13;
farmers, to help them develop valid and coherent personal-practical theories that match with&#13;
production reality. It also concludes that grain production in the central region of Mozambique is&#13;
low due to lack of new technologies, lack of quality seed, lack of funding for this sector by&#13;
government and gross under utilization of natural resources as most of the work is done&#13;
manually hence low grain production.&#13;
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