Malanje- The Malanje Provincial Government has said it intends to reduce agricultural production costs for the business sector to make it easier for farmers to acquire tools and enjoy other benefits that help boost output, the local governor Marcos Nhunga has said.
This does not exclude the family sector, due to the subsistence agriculture it carries out to provide immediate food for citizens.
Marcos Nhunga pointed out that the government wants to encourage an increase in agricultural production and improve people's quality of life, but currently the prices of land preparation, fertilizers and seeds are high, which is why it is seeking ways to reduce them.
According to Marcos Nhunga, the government will do everything it can to achieve this goal, through talks to entrepreneurs, so that together solutions to reduce the cost of agricultural inputs can be achieved.
“We have to draw up a joint strategy so that, at provincial level, we can lower production costs and allow producers to expand their production areas,” he said, stressing that if inputs remain expensive, the goods produced will be sold at high prices.
Despite this, he called on businesspeople to support local family farmers in the preparation of land, purchase of produced goods or other gestures, as they help to fight hunger and improve human relations and the lives of the population.
The governor considered the level of development that Fazenda Pungo-andongo has achieved since its privatization in 2021 to be encouraging, with the emergence of new infrastructures, recovery and acquisition of equipment, increase in production areas and diversification of crops, among others. NC/PBC/TED/AMP
