Angola: EU-Financed Farming Project Raises Maize Production to 35 Per Cent

Talatona — The level of productivity (producing more with less resources) of maize has increased in the past four years from 6% to 35%, in the centre-south (coastal) provinces of Benguela and Cuanza- Sul, as a result of the implementation of the project dubbed “RE-FARM”, financed by the European Union (EU).

The mentioned project, estimated at One Million Euros, was materialised in the municipalities of Ebo, Conda, Seles, Waco-Kungo (Cuanza-Sul), Ganda and Cubal (Benguela), through ten…