Africa-Press – Angola. The deputies of the National Assembly (AN) approved this Tuesday, with recommendations and amendments, the Joint Opinion Report of the General State Budget Law -2023, with 37 votes in favour, 11 against and zero abstention.
For about four hours, the deputies of the 1st, 4th and 5th AN commissions, after heated debates, recommended that the Angolan Executive pay greater attention to issues related to the social sector, in particular families and national production.
Among the recommendations, there are tax incentives for companies that promote the exercise of interns, an increase in funds for construction and rehabilitation of roads, and an increase in the amount allocated to hemodialysis services.
With regard to promoting national production, particularly boosting family farming, the Minister of Economy and Planning (MEP), Mário Caetano João, said that his ministerial department will continue to focus on promoting family farming through financial products and training and capacity building actions for peasants.
Responding to the deputies, in the AN, he explained that the OGE-2023 for the MEP provides around three billion kwanzas for the training and qualification of cooperatives and agricultural entrepreneurs.
The intention, continued the manager, is to change the paradigm of family farming from subsistence production or self-sustenance to commercial production aimed at the national market.
In this alignment, the minister added that the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, in the OGE-2023, also counts on capacity building actions for family farming, with an estimated budget of 10 billion kwanzas, for rural extension and development and access to markets.
The proposal for the General State Budget for 2023, which will be put to the global vote on February 13, provides for revenues and expenses estimated at 20.1 billion kwanzas.
The present OGE-2023 proposal has an increase of 33.4 percent compared to 2022, whose revenues stood at 18.7 billion kwanzas.
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