Curoca – Farmers assigned to field schools in the municipality of Curoca, in the southern Cunene province, benefited, on Tuesday, from over 2 million kwanzas to support productive activity in the region.
These are eight schools, with 30 members each, entitled to 280,000 kwanzas as a “start-up fund”, delivered by the United Nations Fund for Food and Agriculture (FAO), through the Institute for Agrarian Development (IDA).
At the time, the national coordinator of FAO and the Programme for Strengthening Resilience and Food and Nutritional Security in Angola (FRESAN), César Pakissi, said that the objective of this support is also to increase resilience to the effects of climate change.
He informed that farmers have already been provided with irrigation equipment and seeds, as well as other useful tools for carrying out the activity in the communities, in this project that also covers some areas in the provinces of Huíla and Namibe.
The province of Cunene has 75 agricultural field schools, having already benefited from a similar fund to promote vegetables, within the framework of family food sustainability. PEM/LHE/VC/MRA/DOJ
