Africa-Press – Angola. The “Jampur” business group, a company based in Dubai (United Arab Emirates – UAE), intends to invest around 50 million US dollars, for the production of broiler chicken, in the next two years, in Angola, announced this Tuesday, in Luanda, the manager of this company.
According to the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jampur Group, Mohammad Shafiq, the production line will be completed between December 15th and 16th this year, with a total of 15 thousand birds, expected to increase to 10 million birds in 2024.
Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of the signing of the agreement to operate three hospital product manufacturing units in the Special Economic Zone (ZEE), the manager said that he clarified that the project is in its initial phase, having started in September this year.
According to the PCA, the objective is to ensure that, in the next two years, Angola “no longer imports birds and has full capacity to satisfy the domestic market”.
On the other hand, the Minister of Economy and Planning, Mário Caetano João, highlighted that this investment will help minimize the need to import chicken to Angola, which spends approximately 300 million dollars/year on purchasing this product.
He reinforced that the poultry production project aims to make Angola definitively stop importing chickens.
“The investment of 50 million dollars is a necessary amount to support import substitution and, if necessary, be part of the regional economic integration process, to export to neighboring countries”, he stated.
Asked about the project implementation area, the government official pointed to the provinces of Cuanza Norte and Malanje.
In addition to investing in Angola, in the agro-industry, navigation, transport, mining, equipment and trade sectors, the Jampur Group also operates in Nigeria, Pakistan and Ethiopia, where it develops a diversified portfolio of projects, including the production of lubricating oils , vegetable oil, fertilizers, among others.
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