Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, announced the construction of a centrality in the province of Malanje, with more than 2,500 dwellings, scheduled to start between the end of this year and the beginning of 2024.
The Head of State was speaking to the press at the end of the meeting he held with the Provincial Government of Malanje, as part of his working visit to the province.
President João Lourenço also announced the construction of a Higher Institute of Agronomy in the municipality of Cacuso, province of Malange, justifying the decision by the fact that the province is potentially agricultural.
President João Lourenço highlighted, however, that centralities, in themselves, are not the only solution for housing in the country.
“Centralities help to accommodate a certain section of the population, but the solution for everyone is, without a shadow of a doubt, self-construction,” said the Head of State, noting that, in this regard, the State’s responsibility is to cede land below structured so that everyone can build their own home.
In this regard, he defended the combination of various solutions, including social housing, centralities built by the State, self-construction and cooperatives, to resolve the housing problem in the country.
Higher Institute of Agronomy in Malanje
President João Lourenço announced that this infrastructure will be the largest at this level in the country, and will also be able to receive candidates from the 18 provinces.
He justified the construction of this infrastructure in the province of Malanje because it has great agricultural potential and is surrounded by other provinces with the same agricultural potential, namely Cuanza Norte and Uíge.
There is currently a higher education institution in the province of Huambo for training in the field of Agronomy.
“This second one will be born in the north of the country and we will strive to do something that we can be proud of in the coming decades”, he stressed.
For him, talking about the need to invest in agriculture without concern for human training, “is not doing things well”.
“It is not enough to appeal to families and agricultural entrepreneurs to produce more if they do not have qualified people to employ who know about agriculture”, he maintained.
The Holder of the Executive Branch informed that the Government will maintain and improve the Chianga Agronomy Institute, in Huambo, and rehabilitate the Tchivinguiro Institute, in the province of Huíla.
In addition to the Instituto Superior Agrário in Malanje, the construction of a mini canal was also announced, following the example of Cafu, in Cunene, for the irrigated perimeter of Capanda.
Satisfaction with agro-industrial units in Malanje
The Head of State expressed satisfaction with his visit to the agro-industrial units of Biocom and Fazenda Lutete, in the municipality of Cacuso.
He emphasized that it made perfect sense to start his visit in the countryside, where the food is produced.
The Lutete Farm, said the President, functions as a kind of business incubator to enable young people interested in embracing rural activity to start their business with small infrastructure plots, thus contributing to the increase in essential goods.
“We liked what we saw. That project has not been around for very long. It was inaugurated last year, it is public investment, but some critics will say that the State no longer has to get involved in the productive sector, or that we should include it in PROPRIV so that be privatized”, he pointed out.
The Privatization Program (PROPRIV) aims to reduce State intervention in the economy and aims to promote business development.
According to the Head of State, this specific case of Quizenga Lutete “after what we saw, we understand that it should not be privatized, because we are going to take advantage of the fact that we already have water, energy, and infrastructured land there.
The President of the Republic made it known that Biocom is meeting around 40 percent of the country’s sugar consumption needs.
He added that the goal is to work to earn another 20 percent, so that next year it can cover 60 percent of the country’s sugar consumption needs.
To achieve this, he argued that the company will have to make more investments, especially in the agricultural sector, noting that this commitment exists on the part of the shareholders.
“In order to be self-sufficient in sugar production, the 40 percent that will be missing perhaps justifies other private investors being interested in investing in an agro-industrial unit of this kind somewhere in the country, preferably in a province where a railway that leads to a commercial port”, said the Head of State.
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