Africa-Press – Angola. Seven million dollars is the amount that Angolaves, in Bengo province, is investing in a project to expand and modernize the farming unit.
Of this amount, 82 percent refers to financing from the Development Bank of Angola (BDA) and 18 percent from the company.
The investment is aimed at tripling production, which currently stands at 270 boxes of eggs/day, a quantity that has dropped due to the company’s restructuring, informed the director of administration and finance at Angolaves, Daniel Januário.
The amount is also being used in the rehabilitation and construction of new pavilions, classification centers and a digester for treating waste and improving the environment.
The official informed that the current pavilions with a capacity for 18/20 thousand birds are deactivated and that others are being built, for 50 thousand chickens, to allow for a tripling of production.
With an area of 87 hectares, the company has twelve pavilions for a total of 250,000 birds, eight for laying and four for rearing.
The lack of piped water was pointed out as one of the main problems that the company has been facing for 10 years, stressing that it spends one million kwanzas/month on a water tanker truck to give life to the chickens.
In 2022, the company had expenses worth 38 million kwanzas with the purchase of water, while in the first half of this year costs are already in the order of 29 million kwanzas.
Angolaves’ main markets are the country’s capital (Luanda), small, medium and large supermarkets, restaurants and pastry shops.
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