Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of State for Economic Coordination, Manuel Nunes Júnior, will be able to inaugurate, this Thursday, the Instituto Técnico Agrário in the municipality of Luau (ITAL), province of Moxico, becoming the first teaching establishment of this specialty in Eastern Region of the Country.
The school infrastructure, which includes 16 classrooms, 12 laboratories, a library with two reading rooms, an auditorium, various administrative areas with 16 offices, in addition to two naves with 76 rooms and sports courts, has the capacity to accommodate 1,152 students in boarding and external courses.
ITAL was built in 2014, 10 kilometers south of the village of Luau, under the Public Investment Program (PIP), in an area of 16 thousand square meters.
In September 2022, teaching activity began, with 217 students attending courses in Plant Production, Animal Production and Forestry Resources, provided by 21 teachers.
In a first phase, ITAL has been producing in its fields of practical classes, with a dimension of two thousand and 20 hectares, the cultivation of beans, cassava, tomatoes, onions, among other cultures and raising of birds, and other animals, such as goats and cattle.
Within the framework of the internationalization of services and technological modernization, the Instituto Técnico Agrário do Luau (ITAL), stage of the MED National Consultative Council, ending this Thursday, will benefit from the experience of the Zambian counterpart, through a cooperation agreement signed in the month de Abril between the provinces of Moxico (Angola) and the Western Province (Zambia).
Also within the scope of the Moxico-Occidental Bilateral Cooperation Memorandum, it is expected to share technology, knowledge and viable methodologies to train staff capable of contributing to the agrarian development of the respective regions.
According to the projection of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) the municipality of Luau has more than 117 thousand inhabitants and is 334 kilometers east of the city of Luena.
Covering 3,839 square kilometres, the region forms part of the Lobito corridor, housing the last station of the Benguela Railway (CFB).
Luau could become Africa’s gateway to Regional Integration
In addition to this educational infrastructure, the municipality will have the first Laboratory for the Analysis of the Quality of Food produced locally and imported in the province of Moxico, whose installation is scheduled for this semester.
The border municipality of Luau, located more than 334 kilometers east of Luena, will also be able to rely on a Logistics Platform, whose international public tender for its construction was opened in 2022, valued at 17.4 million US dollars.
The construction of the Luau Platform structures, spread over an area of 7.9 hectares, will rely on several areas, such as industry (grain milling, prefabricated concrete), tourism and hospitality, livestock, forestry and mineral resources. .
The complex includes ambient temperature warehouses with an initial capacity of 583 tonnes, which may be classified as Bonded Warehouse, and the administrative area will have services from the Economic and Border Police, Migration and Foreigners and General Tax Administration.
The region, which has 117,000 inhabitants, also stands out for being connected to the coast and to several cities in the center of the country by the Benguela Railway (CFB), constituting the “Corredor do Lobito” , in addition to having an international airport, General Sapilinha Sambalanga, opened in 2015.
In this way, the municipality of Luau begins to transform itself into a true gateway to regional integration in Africa and to bring the area closer to Southern Africa, as a free trade area, boosting trade.
Geographically, the municipality borders, to the east, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to the north, with Muconda (Lunda Sul), to the west, with Luacano and to the south with Alto Zambeze, the last two regions are province of Moxico.
The circumscription has a territorial extension of 3,893 km2, with a humid tropical climate, with two main seasons, namely the rainy season (the hottest) which runs from October to April and the cacimbo season (the driest and coldest), which runs from May to September.
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