Africa-Press – Angola. The wheat processing factory in Caála municipality, Huambo province, in operation since 2014, with a capacity for 120 tons/day, absorbs 40 percent of the production of family farmers.
Upon confirming the fact, this Monday, the factory manager, Felisberto Capamba, informed that the factory unit was created to work directly with the local communities, as it is located in this region of the Central Plateau of Angola, which is very fertile in production. wheat.
He made it known that the factory includes two processing lines, one for flour and the other for pasta, with 40 percent of the raw material coming from local communities and another 60 percent from the factory’s farms.
He said he was working with 34 cooperatives of family farmers in the communes of Calenga (Caála), Sambo (Chicala-Cholohanga), Calima and Huambo, as well as in the municipality of Londuimbali.
Felisberto Capamba said that the factory has the social responsibility of encouraging and sponsoring, in an unlimited way, local farming families, sometimes providing seeds and fertilizers, in addition to creating mechanized brigades, with small equipment, in order to obtain the necessary amount for industrialization.
He revealed that if the processed wheat grains were imported, the project would become unviable and unsustainable, due to the fact that the factory was located in the center of the country, a situation that would involve high transaction costs.
It augurs for greater involvement of local farmers in wheat production, as the factory aims to facilitate the sale of cereals and, at the same time, encourage the generation of income for peasant families, with the purchase of production.
With markets in the provinces of Benguela, Bié, Cuanza Sul, Huambo, Huíla and Luanda, the factory has 70 national workers.
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