Africa-Press – Angola. The production of white sugar, at Companhia de Bio-energia de Angola (Biocom), grows this year, 16 per cent, to 128 thousand tons, accentuating the approximation of the company’s supply to the country’s consumption needs, of 300 thousand tons per year.
The information was provided, on Wednesday, at Biocom’s headquarters, in Cacuso, Malanje, by the company’s deputy director, Luís Bagorro, on the occasion of the launch of the harvest in a plantation of 30 thousand hectares of sugar cane that the company has in that municipality.
Luís Bagorro said that the production of white sugar scheduled for this year represents 40 percent of the country’s annual consumption, reaffirming the company’s plans to reach an installed production capacity of 250,000 tonnes per year.
The official expressed satisfaction with the growth in sugar production in recent years, an evolution that he said was making it possible to strengthen the national industry with the sustainable development of the sugarcane production chain, in line with government initiatives such as the Production Support, Export Diversification and Import Substitution (Prodesi).
In proof of the observance of the goals of this program, Luís Barrogo stated that Biocom no longer imports a portion of its sugar supply, which, since that year, has been constituted by the production obtained at the Cacuso unit.
The official stated that, for the performance forecast for the calculation of supply, Biocom has, this year, 3,500 direct workers, employed in operations of cane harvesting and sugar production, but also in the production of 18 cubic meters of ethanol and 64 thousand megawatts/hour of energy from biomass.
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