Africa-Press – Angola. Around 20 agricultural producers have been participating in the first country produce fair in the District of Rangel, opened this Friday, in an initiative by the municipal administration of Luanda, which aims to exchange commercial experience and establish new business partnerships.
The event takes place over three days under the motto “Rangel for the diversification of the economy and support for national producers”.
Among the products displayed in the Cine Ngola square, there are corn, beans, cassava, reindeer and sweet potatoes, onions, peanuts, cabbage, cabbage, sugar cane, carrots and palm oil, most of which come from the municipality of Quiçama (Luanda) and the provinces of Bengo and Cuanza-Norte.
When speaking at the opening of the event, the municipal director of Promotion of Integrated Economic Development, Joffre Silva, praised the role of farmers in supplying products for the diversification of the country’s economy.
He highlighted the carrying out of the activity to encourage national production, the increase and better use of cultivation and the emergence of new farmers.
“This fair celebrates the importance of agriculture for our lives, because cultivating the land has been fundamental for survival, hence the recognition of farmers”, he highlighted.
He also considered the fair as “an opportunity to exchange information that can be transformed into a type of business exchange”.
In turn, the administrator of the urban district of Rangel, Pedro Calunga, made it known that one of the greatest difficulties facing farmers in the district has to do with the flow of products from the field to shopping centers.
In this location, reindeer and sweet potatoes, cassava, oranges and sugar cane are cultivated on a large scale.
On the other hand, he added that the administration will carry out producer training programs for economic diversification and promotion of production in the district.
Farmer Domingos Manuel, an orange and sugarcane exhibitor, from Icolo and Bengo, considered the fair a means of providing fair prices and diversified goods to visitors.
In turn, Cuanza-Norte exhibitor Guimarães Kutizemba, who is selling palm oil, defended the holding of similar events on a monthly basis to encourage farmers and facilitate the sale of their products.
“Events like this give us encouragement to continue investing in the sector, we need to value the national product”, he said.
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