Africa-Press – Angola. The provincial governor of Cuanza-Norte, Adriano Mendes de Carvalho, delivered, this Monday (18), in the town of Camuaxi, about 12 kilometers southwest of Ndalatando, the delivery of four vans, branded Toyota Land Cruiser, to farmers in the municipalities of Lucala, Cambambe and Ambaca, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of food and nutrition security, as well as increasing agricultural production and productivity.
The vans were delivered as part of the Program to Combat Hunger and Poverty of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Project to Reinforce the Resilience of Family Farmers. The project, budgeted at US$150 million, is financed by IFAD, BADEA (Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa) and AFD (French Development Agency) and the Angolan government. It lasts for six years and is due to end in 2025.
The same program covers seven provinces: Cuanza-Norte, Uíge, Bengo, Zaire, Benguela, Cunene and Namibe. In Cuanza-Norte, the project provides assistance to 36,335 families, 7,267 in each municipality. Legalized cooperatives and associations of private farmers will be covered.
The national coordinator of the Project to Reinforce the Resilience of Family Farmers (SREP), Augusto Samuel, said that only the province of Uíge has, so far, eight field schools, but the forecast points to the installation of 3,500 across the country. , until the end of the project.
Field schools, he clarified, have the function of transmitting knowledge, sharing experiences of good agricultural practices that lead to good yield results and making peasants make a deep analysis of each result at the end of a given harvest.
“We intend to support families with new cultivation techniques, seeds, fertilizers, the introduction of some crops that are not grown here in the region, such as massambala, massango, soy, rice and vegetables”, he said.
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