Africa-Press – Angola. Sixty farmers, including former combatants from the four municipalities of Cabinda province, this Friday, in this city, benefited from three-wheel motorbikes to help transport products from the countryside to markets and shopping centers in towns and cities.
These are three-wheeled motorcycles included in the “Caleluia” project of the Integrated Program for the Development of Rural Commerce (PIDCR).
On the occasion, the provincial secretary for Commerce, Hotels and Tourism, Eduardo Pitra, referred that the PIDCR aims to support farmers of facilities in the flow of products from the countryside to the city and shopping centres.
He also highlighted that the province of Cabinda was awarded with 60 three-wheel motorcycles that have now just been distributed to the beneficiaries in the four municipalities, being thirty for the main municipality of Cabinda, 10 for the remaining three municipalities, namely Cacongo, Buco-Zau and Belize.
Beneficiaries must reimburse 16,000 kwanzas monthly for a period of six (6) months and settle the cost of this means, estimated at 400,000 kwanzas.
For the governor of Cabinda, Mara Quiosa, who witnessed the act of handing over the means, he underlined that they are means that will allow products from the countryside to reach shopping centers and cities more easily.
He appealed to the beneficiaries to take care of the means and support other farmers in selling their products.
The beneficiaries thanked and congratulated themselves for the Government’s initiative, justifying that the means are available for the transport of products from the countryside to the city and vice versa, avoiding the deterioration of products in the fields due to lack of transport.
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