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What grows in Ancuabe

Cabo Delgado, Moçambique

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Map showing the boundary of Ancuabe

The 2026/27 season in Ancuabe

Rainy seasonsOne each year — one chance to plant, so timing carries it
When the rains are expectedNovember 2026 to May 2027
Rain in a typical yearAbout 969 mm
This season's rainLeaning dry — January and February look short of rain. Plant at the early end of the window, favour quicker and more drought-tolerant crops, and keep moisture in the soil: mulch, and weed early.
This season's heatHotter than usual — about +1.4 °C over the growing months. Heat makes the same rain do less, so a dry spell bites sooner: do not plant late, and shade or mulch what you can.
What that supportsenough rain for one full main crop, warm all year, so nothing but rain ends the season
Ground this coversOne kind of ground throughout.

last updated 17 September 2026

What grows in Ancuabe

Rain-fed. These dates are worked out from each place's own rainfall, for a field watered by the season — with irrigation a window can open earlier, close later, or come round more than once a year. Check your own field under What grows, or get the Divisi app for a calendar dated to your farm.

What grows in Ancuabe with irrigation

These need water applied — rain alone will not carry them here. The dates are the windows their own water supply allows.

What Divisi would not plant in Ancuabe

Every crop in the catalogue is scored against this district, not only the ones that work — so the list above is a decision rather than a shortlist. These are the rest, with what ruled each one out.

  • Lemon Only in patches — clears in part of this area, not across any one zone
  • Pineapple Moderate — Water
  • Sugarcane Moderate — Water
  • Ginger Moderate — Water
  • Avocado Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Banana Unsuitable — Water
  • Beetroot Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Cabbage Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Chickpea Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Cocoa Unsuitable — Water
  • Coconut Unsuitable — Water
  • Taro Unsuitable — Water
  • Arabica coffee Unsuitable
  • Robusta coffee Unsuitable — Water
  • Enset Unsuitable
  • Garlic Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Irish potato Unsuitable
  • Niger seed Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Oil palm Unsuitable — Water
  • Passion fruit Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Sweet pepper Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Sweet potato Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Swiss chard Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Tea Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Teff Unsuitable — Temperature
  • Wheat Unsuitable — Temperature

Divisi scored 74 crops against this district's own ground; 26 came back without a sowing date.

Plan the season, not just check it

The crops and dates above are read at cells spread across Ancuabe, and the map colours which kind of ground each part of it is. Your own soil, slope and rainfall will shift the dates — the Divisi app works them out for your field, and dates each job that follows.

Or check your field first

What changed in Ancuabe

  • 2 September 2026 Banana Plantain — Limiting factor changed, now held back mostly by Soil
  • 2 September 2026 Banana Plantain — Suitability class changed, now rates Favourable
  • 2 September 2026 Okra — Limiting factor changed, now held back mostly by Soil
  • 2 September 2026 Okra — Suitability class changed, now rates Favourable
  • 2 September 2026 Passion Fruit — Suitability class changed, now rates Favourable

This calendar moves

Planting windows shift with the forecast. Leave your email and we'll send what changed, and a note when planting time nears — a couple of emails a month at most.

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Frequently asked questions

What crops grow well in Ancuabe?

Bambara groundnut, Cashew, Egusi melon, Fonio, Groundnut all rate well in Ancuabe — scored against its own rainfall, soil and terrain rather than a national average.

When should I plant Bambara groundnut in Ancuabe?

In Ancuabe the window for Bambara groundnut runs 4 Nov 2026 to 12 Feb 2027.

Is there a farming app that works in Ancuabe?

Divisi does. It reads Ancuabe's own rainfall, soil and terrain rather than a national average, so the planting dates and crop shortlist on this page are the same ones the app works out for a field here — then dates each job for that field, and keeps working with no signal.

Is this exact for my own field?

No — these are readings taken across Ancuabe, not on your field. Soil, slope and rainfall change from one farm to the next. Check your own location to see your own numbers.

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