Improves indices of coffee production in Angola

The indices of coffee production have improved significantly in recent years, the province of Uige, fruit enlargement of the areas of action for the culture, reported today (Wednesday), ANGOP, in this city, the local director of INCA, Vasco Gonçalves. According to him, last year were harvested five thousand tons of coffee mabuba and this year is expected to harvest in order of around six tonnes of coffee mabuba, which equates to about three thousand tons of commercial coffee. Vasco Gonçalves said that there are certain areas that are not reached today but the rehabilitation of roads already widens over the radius of the coffee trade, exemplifying that today already reaches Buengas, Bembe and elsewhere, causing them to make an increase in terms of coffee production within the region. Asked how many people are producing coffee in the province, Vasco Gonçalves stressed that counting only those that are within a radius of at least 100 kilometres from the capital seat, ten thousand people are involved in the production of coffee, minus the farmers in the municipalities of Buengas, Bembe and Milunga. As to the support provided to people involved in the coffee, said vary from manufacturer to dealer. "The level of traders we gave the bags, interceded with commercial banks for micro, and provide hulling and promote rural markets," he pointed. For him, the support of the industry as the producer translate to supply plants for free to producers, technologies for plant improvement, it created what is called field school for transmission of technology to producers, as well as controls the prices of coffee marketing to remain as stipulated (40 kz of kg of coffee mabuba). "Our technicians are focused on riding coffee nurseries. Last year we started by selecting the matrices, prepare the seeds, seedbeds did, we are now at about 200,000 coffee plants ", advanced, yet recognizing the insufficiency of mitilênio bags for this purpose. Ensured that, besides the production of coffee plants (ambriz), the technical sector also produce other types of trees like mango, avocado, safoeiros, among others, that are provided in order to free producers. The official revealed that more than 35,000 coffee traders bought, last year, 4,800 tons of coffee mabuba. Pointed to difficulties insufficient hulling, whose province has only four peeling machines coffee mabuba while should have at least one in each producing region, causing at least 15 hulling. Other difficulties are the lack of credits both for producers and for traders, the rehabilitation of tertiary roads, shortage of human resources associated with aging that exist, making each brigade coffee in the province to work with just one technical. Vasco Gonçalves also encouraged people to believe that coffee is still a cash crop and still has value, appealing to society to engage in the production of "red berry", that the region is a huge potential in this culture.
Source: Revista Cafeicultura