According to the official, so far 12 kilometers have been deforested, which will serve as access roads to the project.
There are only two kilometers left to complete the route, he said, admitting to having a "constraint on a small part of the Onzo River".
"There are only two kilometers left to complete the road. We have a constraint in a small part of the Onzo river, where military engineering will be used to facilitate the passage", informed Isaías Kalunga, when speaking to Angop, after a visit to the site, carried out on Saturday.
As it is a CNJ initiative, the youth agricultural city is being implemented in the commune of Kikabo, municipality of Dande, in the province of Bengo and covers an area of 300 hectares.
Of the 300 hectares of the project, 50 have already been deforested, with the support of a machine and 18 people, revealed the president of the CNJ.
Quoted by Angop, he also said that the opening of the youth agricultural year is scheduled for the end of this month, which will create, through cooperatives, 400 direct jobs and 150 indirect jobs.
It is worth remembering that the agricultural project was launched in 2023 in Bengo. At the time, Isaías Kalunga explained that the project aimed to "benefit more than 350 young people in rural areas in all municipalities", being accompanied by housing, schools, medical centers, leisure areas, shops, and other infrastructure.
According to a statement from the Bengo government, released at the time of the project's launch, the agricultural city is budgeted at 475 million kwanzas.
"In the province of Bengo, the agricultural city will be built in the municipality of Dande, commune of Kikabo, and is budgeted at 475 million kwanzas, coming from the Agrarian Development Support Fund (FADA), in which the first phase will be built 180 houses and an estimated 30 cooperatives, each with 10 hectares of land, generating jobs for the province's youth", says the note.
