"There are already requests from several countries that want our fruit, as is the case of Egypt, which expressed this desire, recently, at the fair in Daman, a city in India, and we saw the same interest in other African, European and Asian countries," he said. the official, quoted by Angop on the sidelines of a workshop on trade in services. He also appealed to the need to increase the capacity and quality of domestic production.
The President of CEEIA participated in the signing of a protocol on trade in services of the Community of Southern African Countries (SADC) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFTA).
Agostinho Kapaia referred that the signing of such protocols will bring advantages, namely greater opening through the ZCCLA, with a greater market for national companies.
"The next step now involves training private entrepreneurs and investing in national production so that they can have the capacity to produce for the local market and also for export," he added.
"Obviously, we will also have advantages in that we will be able to have access to goods and services from African countries, without the need to import from China, America or Brazil, since we have products here in Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa, among others. others, that fact could be easier", he concluded.
