Dundo - The Secretary of the President of the Republic for the productive sector, Isaac dos Anjos, stated Friday, in Dundo, that Lunda-Norte has a “virgin” agricultural potential with conditions to be self-sufficient in food production and supply other regions of the country.
Speaking to the press, at the end of his four-day working visit to Lunda-Norte, the secretary stressed that the province should not limit itself to mining exploration, “if it wants to effectively participate in the diversification of the economy”, but rather, take advantage of the agricultural potential it has to produce food on a large scale.
He said that when visiting some production fields, he concluded that the province has a diversity of crops that are being grown without technological resources and that allow the diversification of production, a sign that there is desire on the part of farmers, just lacking some incentive and the involvement of the business sector.
He added that within the scope of crop diversification, the Government and its partners intend to encourage the introduction of coffee, palm plantations, fruit production and processing.
To this end, we intend to soon install a nursery with the capacity to produce one million Arabica coffee seedlings/year.
The prospective project will count on financing from some companies in the diamond sub-sector.
To begin with, companies in the diamond sector made available, from some farms in Cuanza-Sul, ten trucks of Arabica coffee seedlings.
From a livestock perspective, specifically in the municipality of Caungula, the introduction of a bovine species resistant to the sleep fly, coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was highlighted.
Due to their adaptation and resistance to various pests, he advised breeders to acquire such breeds, multiplying them so that in the future the province will be self-sufficient in meat production.
Isaac dos Anjos worked four days in the province of Lunda-Norte, where he visited the municipalities of Cuilo, Caungula, Capenda-Camulemba, Lucapa and Cambulo, to learn about the agricultural potential of the districts. HD/DOJ
