The World Bank has allocated the sum of $25million in support of Angola’s cassava production chain investigation.
The co-ordinator of the Southern African Agricultural Productivity Program (APSA), Moniz Paulo Mutunda, made this known while presenting the future Regional Center for Leadership of SADC cassava, to be hosted by a research centre in Malanje, in October.
The presentation is part of the first cassava hall on the occasion of the Malanje International Fair (Expo-Malanje).
The Center will be located in the former forestry estate and will be used to create conditions for increasing cassava productivity, taking advantage of its agricultural tradition and consequently increasing the income of peasant families.
The objective of creating the regional cassava centre in Malanje is to develop research and create conditions for farmers to have their own materials and inputs to help transform it.
Cassava produced in Angola, particularly in the provinces of Zaire, Cabinda and Lunda Norte, is exported to neighbouring African countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.