Huambo - Authorities in the municipality of Mungo, province of Huambo, are focused on providing various incentives to peasant families, to stimulate the production of Arabica coffee, to strength the economy's diversification program.
Speaking Tuesday to ANGOP, the director of Agriculture of the municipality of Mungo, Arlindo Soares, said that the coffee production program is taking safe steps, with the expansion of the red berry production areas, to increase the income of peasant families in the municipality.
He informed that the sector controls 315 peasant families involved in coffee production, in an area of 20 hectares where a harvest of three thousand tons of coffee is expected in the municipality of Mungo.
He explained that administrative authorities plan to expand the cultivation areas from 20 to 57 hectares from October of this year, with the intention of recovering the production of this variety, which adapts to the climate of the municipality of Mungo.
He added that, for its implementation, 99 thousand coffee seedlings are available and will be distributed periodically to peasant families, for the recovery of production and the increase of this crop, which is already registering an acceptable demand from traders.
He said that coffee can stimulate the industry and open new job segments capable of promoting the self-sustainability of peasant families in communities, as well as promoting youth employability.
He said that peasant families represent the workforce committed to local economic sustainability, as well as to providing a diet in the province of Huambo, which in general expects to have a harvest of over 123 thousand tons of various products in the current agricultural season.
In this 2023/2024 production chain, close to 23 thousand peasant families were involved, organized in 35 cooperatives, 120 associations and 69 rural schools, which were involved in the productivity of 15 thousand and 992.15 hectares of arable land. LT/JSV/ALH/DOJ
