Africa-Press – Angola. The project by the National Youth Council (CNJ) to build farming towns in the country’s 164 municipalities will generate around 100,000 direct jobs by 2025, said Monday in Lobito (Benguela), its president, Isaiah Kalunga.
Speaking at the end of the visit to the ANGATA fertilizer factory, with which he intends to form a partnership, Isaías Kalunga revealed that a pilot project is underway in the province of Bengo, municipality of Dande, for the construction of the first agricultural city in the second half of June, whose land is already in the legalization phase.
According to him, in each cooperative, 60 residences will be built to house ten young people, guaranteeing 600 jobs.
He also said that each cooperative will benefit from five hectares of land and, depending on the magnitude of the project, additional infrastructure will also be built, such as residences, schools, police and medical stations, as well as the purchase of raw materials for agricultural production. .
“We have the support of the Ministry of Territory, which through the provincial governments is facilitating the transfer of land so that agro-livestock cities can emerge at municipal level”, he informed.
Isaías Kalunga added that financial support is guaranteed, estimated at around AOA 375 million for each project in the country’s 18 provinces.
“Depending on the level of interest in the project, we are already being pressured by large commercial areas that want to sponsor the cooperatives, taking advantage of the opportunity to buy their products in advance”, he underlined.
The official made it known that the CNJ decided to speed up the contact of partnerships with the companies ANGATA, as they are specialists in the production of fertilizers and soil correction, as well as with David Trading, specialists in the cultivation of seeds.
“Fifteen days before the implementation of the construction of the youth farming city in Bengo, we are going to sign a memorandum with ANGATA and David Trading to speed up the process”, he confidently stated.
In his opinion, the CNJ is promoting youth associations by identifying the country’s problems, such as hunger in some regions, as well as the lack of jobs.
In turn, ANGATA’s administrator, Domingos David, assured that the company has embraced the project, guaranteeing that it will sign the memorandum of understanding on the provision of services and supply of some goods.
“We believe in what is intended, as the Executive’s objective is to occupy the youth for the country’s economic growth, we cannot not be part of the project and contribute to the diversification of the economy and the capture of external revenue”, emphasized the administrator.
During the guided tour of the factory, the CNJ delegation visited the laboratory, where it learned about the process of analyzing fertilizers, soils and the water to be used, the production and filling of products in big bags, as well as the warehouses where there are, among other products, the contact and ingestion insecticide and the systemic contact fungicide for horticultural crops.
ANGATA, inaugurated on November 19, 2021, has a production of 300 tons of compound fertilizers NPK 12/24/12, in a space of eight hours, which could reach a thousand tons if produced after midnight, according to the administrator.
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