Bibala – a total of 9,000 Robusta coffee seedlings from Uíge province are already in the municipality of Bibala, Namibe province, where they will be planted in the next few days, in Serra da Leba and Humbia.
These coffee seedlings are part of the 20,000 planned and will be planted places affected by considerable felling of trees for the manufacture of charcoal, according to the director of the Provincial Office of Agriculture and Forestry, Zonza Puissa.
Speaking to ANGOP, on Sunday, on the sidelines of the visit of the governor of Namibe, Archer Mangueira, in the municipality of Bibala, where the seedlings are concentrated, he said that the value arising from the commercialization of this agricultural product will benefit the communities in these areas, for their food subsistence.
“Coffee production here in the municipality of Bibala will refrain the manufacture of charcoal and will be supervised by the municipal administration, traditional authorities and students from the Mahita Agricultural School who will help in this process until its commercialization”, he asserted.
While the coffee growth process continues, according to the spokesperson, the sector will distribute it to more than five hundred families who will be resettled in safer areas, with papaya seedlings, so that, in six months, they can harvest the papaya for later commercialization.
At this point, more than two thousand papaya trees are already available in the municipality to be distributed and planted.
The areas of Mangueiras, Lola and Munhino are the locations where there is the highest rate of tree felling for the manufacture of charcoal, which is sold in some provinces such as Huíla, Cunene, Luanda, Malanje and Uíge.
In this municipality, 15 areas have been identified that will be repopulated with the plantation of Robusta coffee. FA/AC/CF/DOJ
