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Wednesday 20 June 2012


Angola

Angola - Pork imports

Angola imports US$500 million worth of pork, beef, chicken and eggs per year - this is too high in Minister of Agriculture Afonso Pedro Canga’s view.

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Saturday 07 April 2012


Angola

Angola - Problems in the cattle industry

An outbreak of Lung Disease (Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia) has forced the Directorate of Veterinary Services (DVS) to suspend all movement of animals in the Okanguati area of the Epupa Constituency.

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Sunday 22 January 2012


Angola

Angola - Concerns over FMD

At least 162.646 cattle were vaccinated by the Veterinary Services of Namibe province, during a vaccination campaign in 2011.

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Angola

Angola - Energy Starved Angola to Build 150 Micro-Hydroelectric Plants

Angola’s Minister of Energy and Water Emanuela Vieira Lopes has announced his government’s intention to build 150 micro-hydroelectric projects at a consultative meeting of Angola’s Ministério da Energia e Água.

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Sunday 06 June 2010


Angola

Angola - Farming development programme

A farming development programme in Camabatela locality, in the northern Kwanza Norte Province, was approved on Wednesday by the Cabinet Council.

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Sunday 16 May 2010


Angola

Angloa - Looking at farm investment

The director-general of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Jacques Diouf Thursday in Luanda commended the Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, on agriculture development policies carried out by the Angolan government, aimed at ensuring the food security.

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Sunday 02 May 2010


Angola

Angola - Equipment for poor farmers

About 406 families from Cunhinga and Kuito municipalities in the central province of Bie received several instruments distributed by Angolan Red Cross (CVA).

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Sunday 03 January 2010


Angola

Angola - Farm production looking good

Production of cereals in the country reached 1.5 million tonnes in the 2008/2009 agricultural period, against the 737,9 tonnes of the previous season

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Friday 01 January 2010


Angola

Angola - Investment in beef production

Angolan company Saema has invested over US$1 million in a large scale agri-livestock project in the municipality of Nzeto, the company’s managing director told Angolan news agency Angop.

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Tuesday 20 October 2009


Angola

Angola - The poultry industry

Poultry breeders in Sumbe City, central Kwanza- Sul Province, want to increase entrepreneurial and commercial poultry breeding in this region, reports AngolaPress.

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Wednesday 30 September 2009


Angola

Angloa - Demise of banana industry

U.S. Chiquita Brands International Inc and a partner have quit plans to enter Angola's once-thriving banana industry after failing to secure the best land to grow and export bananas. Chiquita's partner in Angola, Escom (Xetra: 600720 - news) , said it decided to back away from the project it had been studying for two years because the land it secured to grow bananas was far from the centre of the port city of Lobito, which made the project less feasible

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Thursday 06 August 2009


Angola

Angola - Fish farming

The Angolan Fisheries Ministry is to invest at least US$40 million between 2010 and 2012 in the construction of a National Aquaculture College in the town of Kalandula, in

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Wednesday 08 July 2009


Angola

Angola - Fish farming

The Angolan Government recently approved new measures to better manage marine and aquaculture industries. The measures are aimed at the sustainable preservation of

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Friday 26 June 2009


Angola

Angola - More beef production needed

The governor of southern Huíla province in Angola, Isaac Maria dos Anjos, has called on local farmers to grow grass to produce cattle grazing fields. According to the Angola Press Agency, Isaac dos Anjos put out the appeal while addressing residents of Camana sector, Capunda-Cavilongo locality, in Chibia district, during the

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Saturday 09 May 2009


Angola

The cattle trade.

Mass vaccination of cattle called for.

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