Africa-Press – Angola. A total of 47 cooperatives began to benefit this week from fertilizers, within the scope of the 2022/2023 Agricultural Campaign, which started on 20 October, the director of the Provincial Office for Agriculture told in Caxito yesterday. Fisheries and Forest Resources.
Faustino Gonga explained that around 200 tonnes of fertilizers are available in Bengo to be distributed to agricultural cooperatives in the province.
“The fertilizers begin to be distributed this week. Each 50-kilogram bag costs 17,285.00. But the beneficiaries pay only 35 percent of the value. The rest is subsidized by the State”, he assured.
He added that the cooperatives will be obliged to pay only 6,000 kwanzas, in each of the two programmed phases, to total 12,000 kwanzas per bag. “Therefore, the remaining five thousand, two hundred and eighty-five kwanzas represent the part subsidized by the State, in each bag of fertilizer”, he clarified.
Faustino Gonga referred that, in this Agricultural Year, the Government expects to exceed the figure reached in the previous campaign, set at 1,072,000 tonnes of various products.
“Twenty days after the start of the new agricultural season (2022/2023), the regular occurrence of rains, in the six municipalities that make up the province, give us good indicators”, concluded the official.
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