Africa-Press – Angola. Around 1.794 thousand and 12 tons of different products were harvested during the first phase of the 2022/2023 agricultural campaign, in the province of Moxico, representing a production growth of around 40 percent.
The guarantee was given by the head of the local Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Flora, Benjamim JoseĢ, at the end of the institution’s Board of Directors, justifying the increase in production with the number of families assisted with technical means, in a campaign that ran from October to March of the current year.
The spokesperson for the extended board of directors of the Provincial Office for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries held yesterday, from the range of crops produced, highlighted the prospect of harvesting 1.450 thousand and 740 kilograms of tons of cassava and 323 thousand and 204 corn, up 10 percent.
He referred that this production is the result of around 63 thousand hectares of land prepared in the largest province of the country, with an extension of 223 thousand and 23 square kilometres.
The Agriculture, Livestock and Flora office controls 230 cooperatives, of which, in a first phase, 18 of which benefited from agricultural credits as part of the implementation under the Program to Support Production, Diversification of Exports and Substitution of Imports (PRODESI).
In the same perspective, 44 ex-military cooperatives also benefit from credits within the framework of the implementation of the Agrarian Development Support Fund (FADA).
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