Africa-Press – Angola. Forty thousand tons of rice could be produced in the 2023/2024 agricultural year in the province of Malanje, with the increase in cultivation areas, which will go from two thousand and 500 to seven thousand and 450 hectares.
The data was presented this Thursday by the provincial governor of Malanje, Marcos Nhunga, during the end-of-year greeting ceremony, remembering that after a harvest of six thousand 341 tons in the 2022/2023 agricultural year, cereal production levels will increase significantly.
In addition to rice, he highlighted the reactivation of the historic cotton culture in the municipalities of Cunda-dia-base, Quela and Mucari, with an initial production of 30 tons.
On the other hand, he made it known that in the 2022/2023 agricultural year, the province harvested one million 796 thousand 446 tons of cassava, 136 thousand 875 tons of sweet potatoes, 17 thousand 674 tons of beans, five thousand 700 tons of soybeans and 157 thousand 674 tons of corn, numbers that, in his view, highlight the vast agricultural potential of the region, capable of making it a breadbasket of national agricultural production.
In this sense, it guaranteed the government’s continued support for family and business producers, as well as openness to new national and foreign investments, given the conditions that the province has to produce food on a large scale.
In his intervention, the governor made an incursion into the socio-economic life of the province, with emphasis on the projects of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM) and the Integrated Plan for Local Development and Combating Poverty (PIDLCP), expansion of the network of energy and drinking water, as well as pointing out lines of action for the 2024 economic year.
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