Africa-Press – Angola. The Secretary of the President of the Republic for the Productive Sector, Isaac dos Anjos, highlighted Wednesday, in Samba Lucala (Cuanza-Norte), the contribution of the Samba Lucala Farm in increasing internal grain production, with emphasis on corn and soy.
He said that it is boosting grain production in the country for the manufacture of feed and direct consumption by the population.
The agricultural enterprise, opened in 2022, in the commune of Samba-Lucala, municipality of Samba-Cajú, in Cuanza-Norte, resulted from a public investment of 54 million, 646 thousand and 625 US dollars (one dollar is worth kz 828,663).
The farm has the capacity to produce 30 thousand tons of soybeans, beans and corn per year and has a total area of 10 thousand hectares.
Of this area, only two thousand hectares are cultivated with corn and soybeans, of which one thousand and three hundred are irrigated by 23 central pivots and the remainder under rainfed conditions.
In the 2023 harvest, it reached 1,158 tons of soybeans and 6,489 tons of corn, in an area of 1,363 hectares, thus becoming the fourth largest corn producer in the country.
Isaac dos Anjos provided this information to the press, regarding the joint visit with the Minister of State for Economic Coordination, José de Lima Massano, to the project.
He mentioned that the country currently has 32 farms with similar capabilities, whose production is making a difference in the country’s sustainability, in terms of grains.
Despite this, he considered that cereal production was still insufficient to meet the country’s needs.
For this reason, it encouraged continued public investment in projects of this nature, taking into account their multiplier effect on the national economy, with the generation of jobs and the emergence of other support services.
“We do not have banks with the financial capacity to support the private sector, to make investments of this nature, so we still need the State, with courage, to realize that we still have to make public investments in these objectives and then privatize. And so the economy will have a greater impact”, he stressed.
He added that, in addition to making private investment unfeasible, the lack of resources also conditions the increase in the country’s levels of agricultural mechanization, due to the high costs of purchasing machines, which are not within the reach of most private investors.
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