Quipungo – At least 85 peasant schools were built in the municipalities of Quipungo and Chibia, southern Huíla Province, by the MOSAP III Agriculture Transformation project, to encourage the practice of goods such as animal husbandry in families.
This is the first phase of the project that kicked off in 2022 and financed by the World Bank (WB) and the Angolan government, valued at 250 million North American dollars and covers 13 of the country's 18 provinces, with the aim of improving cultivation techniques and ensuring better production results.
According to the MOSAP III national coordinator, Francisco Gomes, its implementation will allow and guarantee more food production, with a view to eradicating hunger in families, who begin to master new cultivation techniques.
Speaking on the sidelines of the visit to local field schools, the official highlighted that these are making peasant families more dynamic in the process of producing food and improving income, through the trade of the harvest.
He considered that one of the targets of this project is to instruct farmers to carry out a study of the cultivation fields, and in case of failure, they should opt for other temporary replacement crops that serve as an alternative to guarantee the supply of food in a regular and sustainable manner.
MOSAP III is a project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, implemented by the Institute for Agrarian Development (IDA), with WB financement.
The municipality of Quipingo has an estimated population of 215,196 inhabitants, while Chibia has 258,196.
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