JFS-SAN has already produced and sold 70 thousand liters of oil The company João Ferreira dos Santos, Sociedade Algodoeira do Niassa (JFS-SAN), has already produced 70 thousand liters of cooking oil since the inauguration, last year, of the Cooking Oil Extraction Center, financed by the Catalytic Fund for Innovation and Demonstration (FCID).

Inaugurated on August 3rd last year by His Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, President of the Republic of Mozambique, the JFS-SAN Cooking Oil Extraction Center in Cuamba, Niassa, produces 2,000 liters of oil per day and sells all of its production locally.

Funded by the Catalytic Fund, the oil mill is boosting the production of soybeans, cotton and peanuts, ensuring market access for thousands of producers in Cuamba, in particular, and other neighbouring districts. Although it mainly produces soybean oil, the most sought after by consumers, the mill has already successfully tested the production of cottonseed and peanut oil, two oilseeds also produced locally.

With the implementation of the oil factory project, JFS-SAN directly benefited more than four thousand small producers, with whom it works in partnership, allocating agricultural inputs, providing technical assistance and purchasing the production of soybeans, cotton and peanuts as raw materials for the factory.

The cooking oil is sold at Lojas João, a chain of stores built by JFS-SAN in the Cuamba district as part of the implementation of the Fábrica de Óleos project, with funding from FCID. The sale of the oil has not been expanded to other regions because the factory does not have the capacity to produce large quantities.

The bagasse resulting from the extraction of soybean oil is sold to the company Novos Horizontes, in Nampula, for the production of animal feed.