Malanje - Carrinho Agri company on Monday started a project to purchase vegetables from family producers in the municipalities of Cacuso and Malanje, with a view to diversifying its line of acquisition and transformation of products.
Until then, the Group was essentially dedicated to the purchase of maize, in the municipalities of the Songo Region, especially Luquembo, in Malanje and in other provinces of the country, as part of its program to support the development of family farming.
The vegetable purchase project aims to provide the flow of subsistence production for family producers, in addition to encouraging increased productivity and contributing to food self-sufficiency.
At the launch of the operation, the manager of agronomic research and development of Cart Agri, Edmar Martins said that for the two municipalities, in a first phase, 200 tons of vegetables were purchased from 400 producers, with an estimated value of 100 million kwanzas.
These are tomatoes, peppers, onions, cabbage and other crops, including bananas, oranges and pineapples, products, according to the official, are destined for Cart Agri's distribution stores in Luanda.
The process will extend in the coming days to the other regions of the country where the company operates, starting with Cuanza Sul, and the form of payment can be in kwanza or also through the exchange with fertilizers, seeds and pesticides.
Some vendors considered this project of the Carrinho Agri Group as an opportunity to sell their products, given the difficulties they face in this regard, due to the lack of customers for large-scale purchases and degradation of access roads.
The owner of the Agro-cajiza Farm, installed in the Agro-industrial Pole of Quizenga Lutete, Angelino Dombo stressed that with this initiative, he raised two million kwanzas in the sale of two and a half tons of pepper.
In turn, Evandro Alves, manager of the Esperança Catete Sunda Farm, also in the municipality of Cacuso, stressed that he sold four tons of tomatoes, worth one million and 300,000 kwanzas, whose value is intended to increase production since large quantities have deteriorated.
The prices of the products range from 500 kwanzas to 840 per kilo of pepper, while tomatoes range from 235 to 340 and eggplant from 90 to 130, among others. NC/PBC/DOJ
