Lubango – A total of 1,100 tons of wheat seeds will be harvested, starting in June this year, on four farms belonging to the Huilano group Jardins da Yoba, in the current agricultural campaign, ANGOP learned today, in Lubango.
According to the general director of the respective company, João Saraiva, the variety of this product was sown in the municipalities of Humpata and Chibia (Huíla), Waku-Kungo (Cuanza-Sul) and Xangongo (Cunene), on an area of 300 hectares, of their fields of multiplication of wheat seeds and other varieties.
João Saraiva stated that it is a program that aims to promote grain production by family farming, in a partnership with the Federal University of Lavras (Brazil), which brought to the South region a variety that has adapted to the soil and climate conditions of Angola, where rain is scarcer and wheat has to be sown in February and ready in May during the dry season.
He made it known that the wheat promotion program began to be planned by the Ministry of Agriculture two years ago, through the regions with the greatest vocation for production, such as the provinces of Bié, Huambo and Benguela, but has now been extended to Huíla, Cunene and Cuanza-Sul, in this partnership between Jardins da Yoba and Brazil.
In this process, according to the producer, more than 150 experts are involved, including students from different public and private universities in Angola, trained in agronomy.
He admitted that one of the main difficulties that wheat producers face in the country has to do with access to seed, hence the intervention of Jardins da Yoba, with the aim of ensuring that these projects have sustainability and cheaper access to inputs.
The group is one of the few certified by the FAO seed production program and currently produces more than 500 hectares in multiplication of red and white corn seeds, as well as reindeer potatoes, onions, beans, soybeans and now wheat, for the first time.
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