Africa-Press – Angola. Agro-industry specialist Armando Valentim highlighted, this Friday, in Huambo, the economic value of cassava properties, for promoting the industrialization of the product, in search of new employment alternatives.
The university professor said this during the third Business and Connectivity Forum, promoted by the Media Nova Group, which brought together businesspeople, entrepreneurs, investors and producers from Angola and neighboring countries, to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the business world in the 21st century.
Armando Valente said it is essential to increase cassava production for the sustainability of paper factories, which use starch, as well as stimulating local development with the multiplication of this crop, which is still produced in very small segments.
Armando Valente recalled that Angola imports starch from Egypt and Israel, at a time when the country has arable land for the production of cassava with a versatile economic content, capable of promoting sustainable progress, as well as increasing the business chain, to the vitalization of entrepreneurial initiatives.
He mentioned that it is opportune to relaunch cassava production for self-sufficiency and, consequently, the promotion of sustainable development with industrialization in the country, as well as the implementation of these products for industrial sausages.
Agro-industry specialist Armando Valentim exemplified that a factory for its full operation requires at least 10 thousand tons of starch, which requires promotion to triple the production of this crop at country level.
He justified that the lack of flow capacity and the cassava market contributed to the reduction of production practices in the country, in a culture dominated by peasant families, whose efforts are concentrated on food subsistence without major impacts on the national economy.
He said that the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at José Eduardo dos Santos University carried out a plausible study on cassava varieties rich in starch properties, capable of reducing imports and capitalizing on the sustainability of Angolan factories for economic progress.
It showed that cassava production, in addition to the manufacture of various raw materials, can help with family food security.
For his part, naturopath Gabriel Joaquim suggested the need for the Angolan Government to also concentrate efforts on creating adequate laboratories and equipment for the certification of medicinal plants in order to increase the country’s economic development levels.
He said there is a diversity of plants in the country with healing properties whose value is decisive for the diversification of the economy as well as the opening of new business opportunities capable of creating jobs for youth.
To this end, he recommended greater investment in the dissemination of knowledge focused on naturopathy so that progress can be implemented through existing medicinal plants in Angola.
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