Africa-Press – Angola. Bananas, passion fruit, papaya and pineapple are among the most demanded national agricultural products for exports outside the oil sector, said yesterday in Luanda, the president of the Community of Internationalized Exporting Companies of Angola (CEEIA), Agostinho Kapaia .
“There are already requests from several countries that want our fruit, as is the case of Egypt, which recently expressed this desire at the fair in Daman, a city in India, and we saw the same interest in other African, European and Asian countries” , he highlighted, in statements to the press, on the sidelines of a workshop on trade in services.
At the event held within the scope of the protocol on trade in services of the Community of Southern African Countries (SADC) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFTA), he called for the need to increase the capacity and quality of domestic production.
According to the Agricultural Campaign Report (RCA) 2019/2020, the quantity of these goods produced in Angola is sufficient to meet the needs of the national market, without resorting to imports, a fact that makes the country autonomous in its production and distribution.
Until 2020, Angola was the largest African producer of bananas and seventh in the world, with a supply of 4.4 million tons, according to the table of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO), published that year.
According to statistics, in 2020, pineapple stood out with a harvest of 637 thousand 630 tons (11.1%); citrus (orange, lemon and tangerine) with a figure of 436 thousand 086 tons (+5%); mango with 248 thousand 036 tons (+4.8%); and avocado with a harvest of 52 thousand 488 tons (+1.1%).
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