Lubango - The Ministry of Agriculture Wednesday in Lubango city, Huila province, presented its programme for the Development of Commercial Agriculture in Angola (PDAC) to potential beneficiaries, in which in Huila the municipalities of Caluquembe, Caconda and Chicomba have been selected.
The project began in December 2018 and will run from 2019 to 2024, funded by the government, via a loan from the World Bank and the French Development Agency (AFD), aimed at boosting investment in commercial agriculture, estimated at US$230 million.
Speaking to ANGOP, on the sidelines of the event, the PDAC coordinator, Estevão Chaves, said that the programme aims at increasing productivity and improving the access of the production to markets, contemplating the value chains selected as priorities.
The value chains are those of maize, beans, coffee, cassava, sweet and sour potato, whilst in livestock production the focus is on eggs and poultry.
According to the official, PDAC's intervention is focused on two "major road corridors," the first made up of the provinces of Kwanza Norte (11 municipalities) and Malange (seven municipalities), where 34 projects have already been supported.
The second includes the provinces of Kwanza Sul (nine municipalities), Huambo (five), Bié (three) and Huíla (three). In all there are 35 municipalities, a number that may increase depending on the development of the activities to be funded.
