Angolan Government Guarantees to Finance Coffee Farmers
Yan Liang
China View
June 15, 2008
LUANDA, (Xinhua) -- The Angolan government has recently approved a policy to finance coffee farmers in order to promote coffee cultivation, a senior government official said at the weekend.
During his inspection visit to Mucaba, a major coffee growing region in northwestern Angola, at the weekend, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Afonso Pedro Canga told local coffee growers that the government has worked out a program to finance the revival of coffee production in the country.
He said the government will carry out the program on the basis of granting micro-credits to coffee growers so as to help them prepare for the coming coffee harvest season and multiply cultivation of coffee in the near future to revive coffee production in the country.
"The government has a program of trading and supporting coffee production," he said, stressing that the government is doing its best to help coffee growers to promote coffee production. He added that he was satisfied at finding that farmers in the region are willing to cultivate coffee.
Angola used to be a leading coffee production country in the world, whose production took a distinguished share of the national economy.
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