Luanda – Angolan government will inject 300 million US dollars for the execution of the National Livestock Promotion and Development Plan for the 2023-2025 period, the Angolan minister of Economy and Planning, Mário Caetano João, said Thursday in Luanda.
The minister, who was speaking to the press at the end of the Cabinet Council meeting chaired by President João Lourenço, which approved the 2023-2025 National Plan for Livestock Promotion and Development, said the amount will be mainly addressed to cooperatives or organized animal production units.
“It is an instrument that aims to provide responses to the needs of consumption, to seek to rationally replace imports of these products, with emphasis on cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and poultry, as well as products linked to livestock, eggs and milk”, the minister said.
Mario João informed that in the last five years, the country registered a 55 percent increase in pork production, 30 percent in bovine meat,33 percent in egg and 14 milk 14 production.
NGO Law
The Cabinet Council also discussed the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Draft Law.
As regard to this issue, the secretary of State for Human Rights, Evaristo Solano, said there is a legal vacuum in the monitoring that should be done to these organizations, underlining that the draft-law aims to discipline the patterns of creation, systematization, and inspection of NGOs.
Source: Angola Press News Agency