Luanda, Sept. 10, 2025 (Lusa) - The Angolan government estimates it will spend 1.2 billion kwanzas (€1.1 million) to import improved cashew, cocoa, robusta coffee and dendém palm seeds with a view to increasing production of these crops in the country, an official source announced on Wednesday.
According to the public tender, published in the state controlled Jornal de Angola newspaper, the cocoa seeds are to be purchased in the Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, the cashew seeds in Mozambique, the robusta coffee in Uganda and the pre-germinated dendém palm seeds in Malaysia and Mozambique.
The deputy director general for Administrative Services at the National Coffee Institute (INCA), Henrique do Nascimento António, quoted today by the Emissora Católica de Angola radio station, said that the public tender is part of the national plan to promote these crops.
"There is a national plan to promote these crops in the country, whose plantation renewal process includes the use of more productive, healthy plants that are capable of increasing production, but the country does not always have these hybrid varieties. In the case of cashews, it will contribute to the installation of new plantations and an increase in production volume, and the same can be said for dendém palm trees," he said.
With the purchase of cocoa seeds, the government estimates it will spend 330 million kwanzas (about €305,000) pre-germinated dendem palm seeds (202 million kwanzas or €187,000), cashew seeds (196.2 million kwanzas or €181,000) and robusta coffee seeds (476 million kwanzas or €440,000), totalling 1.2 billion kwanzas.
At least 1.5 million kilograms of cocoa seeds, one million units of dendém palm seeds, 1.2 million units of cashew seeds and 1,700 kilograms of robusta coffee seeds are to be purchased, said the deputy director general of National Coffee Institute.
"The investment will be made in improved, high-yield genetic material, which could contribute significantly to the production volume of these crops. With an increase in these products five years after the investment, we will also be able to export," added Henrique do Nascimento António.
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