{"id":21176,"date":"2023-11-20T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/sao-vicente-farmer-close-to-producing-400-tons-year-asks-for-strategic-credit-lines"},"modified":"2023-11-20T22:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:45:30","slug":"sao-vicente-farmer-close-to-producing-400-tons-year-asks-for-strategic-credit-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/sao-vicente-farmer-close-to-producing-400-tons-year-asks-for-strategic-credit-lines","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Vicente: Farmer close to producing 400 tons\/year asks for strategic credit lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>The need for financial support with strategic lines of credit for agriculture \u201cis essential\u201d to develop the \u201chuge capacity\u201d of the sector, revealed to Inforpress Adilson Mel\u00edcio, engineer\/farmer, close to reaching 400 tons\/year of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t want free money, I want to pay my money \u201d, he told Inforpress, when we met him at his property, in Ribeira de Vinhas, a 50-hectare stretch of land (enough space to build 50 football pitches). ), in the middle of vast areas of open-air plantations, greenhouses and desalination plants.<\/p>\n

By mid-2024, the company he created, Agro Solu\u00e7\u00f5es, plans to place 400 tons of fruits and vegetables on the market, such as papaya, banana, cucumber, lettuce, melon, watermelon and tomato, that is, 80 percent (%) of the promise made in February 2022 when it initialed a protocol with the US Embassy.<\/p>\n

\u201c What we need in this area is simply financial support with strategic lines of credit for the sector, very well designed, not lines of credit common to all \u201d, he specified, since the sector has its specificity and governments will have to work on sense of creating incentives.<\/p>\n

According to Inforpress, Mel\u00edcio points out that it could be an agricultural credit bank, \u201cwhich already exists, for example, very close by, in Senegal\u201d, but, he continued, even if it is not a bank, it is a line of credit in which the Government supports with special conditions for farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201c We here have enormous capacity, but we mainly need support in financial policies for the sector \u201d, reinforced the agricultural engineer, who states that S\u00e3o Vicente, due to its intrinsic potential and with more people investing in the sector, could become the \u201clargest agricultural island\u201d in Cape Verde.<\/p>\n

\u201c The island has free space, State land, in which companies can invest, as long as they are properly supported\u201d , he stated, at the same time as he revealed a dream.<\/p>\n

\u201c My dream is to be able to desalinate seawater, on a scale of four thousand cubic meters of water\/day, produce and export to the domestic and foreign markets \u201d, he announced, in large-scale production, not only in S\u00e3o Vicente, but in Porto Novo or Tarrafal de Santiago, for example.<\/p>\n

Arid areas, the same source continued, have \u201c enormous potential \u201d to produce on a \u201c large scale and with great quality \u201d, based on the desalination of sea water, through combined wind and solar energy.<\/p>\n

And he gives the example of a species of papaya that currently produces, with a level of production \u201cequal to any other place\u201d, such as the Canary Islands, Brazil or Costa Rica, in terms of quality and productivity per square meter, and also prices practiced abroad, Portugal , like a kilogram of papaya for 5 euros or passion fruit, \u201cwhich is considered weeding here\u201d , for 17 euros.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this area, in fact, the biggest challenges are the initial investments, but as long as they are made with technology, and I am speaking as an agronomist, the sky is the limit, you can do anything\u201d, summarized Adilson Mel\u00edcio, to Inforpress . Photos: Cultivation field owned by engineer Mel\u00edcio and another group of owners from Ribeira de Vinha.<\/p>\n

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