Uíge – The coffee harvest campaign, which opened on Tuesday, in the municipality of Mucaba, in the province of Uíge, foresees a harvest of 6, 630 tons of the product for the 2023/2024 agricultural season.
In the previous year's agricultural campaign, the province of Uíge harvested 5,502 tons of coffee.
The announcement was made today by the director of the Uíge Provincial Agriculture Office, Eduardo Gomes, at the opening of the coffee harvesting campaign, held at the Boa Esperança farm.
The source informed that the National Coffee Institute (INCA) in Uíge plans to distribute, this year, one million and 500 thousand coffee seedlings to local producers in order to boost the production of this crop in the region.
He highlighted the signs of gradual recovery in coffee production in the region, resulting from the local government's commitment to land mechanization, incentives to producers, delivery of seedlings for the renewal of coffee plantations, creation of infrastructures to support production, marketing and allocation of micro-credits to producers.
'Production indicators in the region have registered, in recent years, exponential and expressive growth', said Eduardo Gomes.
In turn, the vice-governor of Uíge for the Political, Economic and Social sector, Sonia Arlete Cahombo, reaffirmed the local government's commitment to rescuing the province's mystique in coffee production, as part of the diversification of the economy.
She defended the need to improve and expand production areas, aiming to obtain a greater number of harvests.
She urged young people in the region to invest in coffee production, to guarantee employability and income for families.
The province of Uíge has 1,500 coffee growers, with the highest incidence in the municipalities of Mucaba, Quitexe and Songo. NM/JAR/DOJ
