Huambo – The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (MINAGRIF), António Francisco de Assis, on Sunday visited construction site of the future Bioveterinary and Animal Vaccine Production Center, with completion scheduled for the second half of 2025.
Accompanied by the governor of Huambo province, Lotti Nolika, the minister received detailed information on the progress of the construction process of the factory.
The Animal Vaccine Biodiversity and Production Center, under construction in the Santo António neighborhood, on the outskirts of the city of Huambo, is designed to produce, on an annual average, 30 million 600 thousand doses of vaccines for mammals and 150 million 600 thousand for birds.
They will be used for the treatment of external and internal anthrax, diarrhea in calves, clostridiosis of cattle, brucellosis B19 and Newcastle, infectious bronchitis and smallpox.
The enterprise, with an international dimension, also plans to make nine million 384 thousand units of reagents available every year for testing tuberculosis in mammals, smallpox and brucellosis.
Speaking to the press, the project coordinator, António José Lenine, assured that, despite the slight delay in the works, which began on July 15, 2022, everything is being done to complete the work in July 2025, at a time when which are at 25 percent physical execution.
From the point of view of financial execution, he said that there is no constraint so far.
In turn, the head of the consortium of companies responsible for carrying out the work, Miguel Costa, said that the project envisages buildings for the production of vaccines, to house office, storage, quality control, research and quality control.
He added that, despite the initial constraints, especially in the foundations, due to intense rains, the Gauff & Engenharia / Norafrica consortium has all the conditions to complete the work in the second half of 2025.
The construction of the project, which includes 36 residences for technicians and students, as well as a social area, which will include a restaurant and children's playground, generated 300 direct jobs, 95 percent of which were for young people residing in the province of Huambo.
The project arises within bilateral cooperation, between the governments of Angola and Germany, with the aim of promoting the production of vaccines in the country. ALH/DOJ
