Luanda - The Secretary of State for Planning, Milton Reis, said this Thursday, in Luanda that the acquisition of products in the foreign market for the Strategic Food Reserve (REA) should be for goods with a deficit in domestic production.
Speaking at the usual briefing of the Ministry of Economy and Planning, he underlined the continuous need to reinforce the work, so that the country has a competitive national production, to meet internal needs.
The REA serves to immediately place on the market, in a first phase, up to 354.000 tons of food, progressively increasing until reaching 520,000 tons of products.
Among the products to be made available immediately, sugar, rice and chicken thighs stand out. Over the next few weeks, the remaining nine products will begin to be distributed, out of the 11 that are part of the management of the operation.
The REA will guarantee the acquisition, storage and distribution of 520.000 tons of food products, part of them already produced and processed locally, in job-generating industries, with an impact on price reduction of up to 5% for the final consumer. .
On the other hand, Milto Reis highlighted that the Informal Economy Reconversion Program (PREI), which has more than 50,000 formalized economic agents, began to have greater dynamics in 2021, with a positive balance, taking into account the number of operators who want to have their activities formalized.
