Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Industry and Commerce, Victor Fernandes, reiterated Friday, the challenge to the private sector to create strategies and mechanisms that make Angola a self-sufficient country in food and other essential consumer goods.
The government official was speaking at the closing of the II Consultative Council of the Ministry, referring that such a challenge is possible through the binomial agricultural production – industrial transformation, with the entry into execution of the national plans for Grain, Fisheries and Livestock (PLANAGRÃO, PLANAPESCAS, and PLAPECUARIA).
He declared that the aforementioned macro-plans have as fundamental objectives the increase of national production, food and nutritional security.
He reaffirmed the Executive’s commitment to boosting the productive sector and challenged economic agents to find strategies to diversify the Angolan economy and make it less and less dependent on the oil sector.
“Our role as a State is to guarantee the execution of public policies that make possible all economic activity that favors development, food security, income generation and the promotion of competitiveness at national and regional level, with the intention of , in the medium term, to make Angola a great producer, exporter, less importer and prosperous”, he said.
He referred that the main objective of the event was to align the strategic perspective of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce with the vision of the different sectors of the country, with the opportunities for industrial and commercial development, based on the different programs aimed at the economic growth of the country and defined as priorities of the current government.
He stressed that the objectives that were the basis for holding the III Consultative Council were achieved, taking into account the scope and depth of the topics addressed and analysed, therefore, they hope that the result will be carried out and materialized by all, each at their own level and level. according to the scope of action of its corporate and institutional segment.
According to the official, the Consultative Council opened the space and reaffirmed the need for continuous fruitful and permanent consultation between the public and private sectors, in the deepening of the coordinated intervention of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the strategic productive sector, in the interest of the development of values that support food self-sufficiency.
He highlighted that food safety is another challenge inherent to the sector, which makes it possible to meet nutritional needs with compliant products and in good conditions of quality and suitability for the citizen.
He reaffirmed that programs aimed at improving the business environment, aimed at attracting private investment, are in place, thanks to the simplification and reduction of bureaucracy in procedures related to the licensing of economic activities.
The III Consultative Council of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce lasted two days and took place in one of the hotel units in the city of Lubango.
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