After cutting the ribbon, the President of the Republic visited the premises.
The educational institution, which is the result of a partnership between Angola and France, is composed of 10 classrooms with capacity to house 350 students, eight laboratories and two food processing pavilions that are equipped with state-of-the-art technology. In addition, the institute also has research laboratories and processing pavilions of animal and plant origin.
According to Angop, in an initial phase, the institute will be able to form national undergraduate and master's degree cadres. For this academic year, 176 students are already enrolled. The institute also has the collaboration of 24 teachers, all national.
According to Guilherme Pereira, director of the institute, for now only the Agro-Food Engineering course will be available, however, when the necessary conditions are met, other courses (Agronomy and Veterinary) should be available.
"As we increase the number of teachers, we will also open other courses," he said, quoted by Angop.
The institution began operating in 2015, in the rooms attached to Amilcar Cabral College in Malanje, provisionally. Due to the lack of space it was only capable of training 60 students at a time.
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