Africa-Press – Angola. The first poultry farm in the municipality of Curoca, province of Cunene, expects to produce, from December this year, two thousand and 700 eggs per day, to supply the local market, informed, this Thursday, the owner, Osvaldo Candeeiro .
The aviary, which holds two buildings for 1,600 chickens, is the result of financing of 37 million kwanzas from the Development Bank of Angola (BDA), made available in 2022.
Businessman Osvaldo Candeeiro said that the aviary has 550 birds in the growth phase, acquired in Huíla, with a view to starting to produce that quantity of eggs from December.
According to the source, the project could make the market more sustainable for egg consumption, which currently costs 200 kwanzas each.
Osvaldo Candeeiro highlighted that the feed to feed the chickens is purchased in the province of Huíla, with a 30-kilo bag costing 14,300 kwanzas, and appealed to Cunene businesspeople to invest in this business.
For his part, the director of the provincial Office for Integrated Economic Development of Cunene, Felisberto Hisimongula, said that this is the second poultry farm to appear in the province, after the poultry farm in the town of Oipembe, in Ondjiva.
The official praised businessman Osvaldo Candeeiro for his investment in Curoca, a location 350 kilometers from the city of Ondjiva, capital of Cunene.
Felisberto Hisimongula said that, at this time, it is the only poultry farm in the province, so it will deserve everyone’s support, in order to fully function in egg production to make the market more sustainable.
First poultry farm in Cunene
The Poultry Complex in the town of Oipembe, on the outskirts of the city of Ondjiva, which operated from 2018 to 2020, was the first poultry farm in Cunene, in the post-independence period, equipped with the latest generation technology.
The aviary resulted from financing from the Angolan Government’s credit line, through the Angola Investe Program, in the amount of one million and 500 thousand US dollars.
In October 2019, the year in which Cunene experienced a severe drought, sixteen thousand birds of the 23,800 that existed in the Oipembe Aviary, on the outskirts of Ondjiva, died due to water scarcity, causing a loss of 32 million kwanzas.
With an area of seven thousand 998 square kilometers, the municipality of Curoca is administratively divided into two communes, namely Oncócua and Chitado, as well as 25 villages, which have 56 thousand inhabitants.
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