This is one of the strategic actions that the industrialists defended at a meeting with the Minister of State for Economic Coordination and those of Agriculture and Commerce on Thursday where large producers, the Angola Agro-livestock Association and the National Association of Poultry Farmers of Angola met to "agree on a strategic proposal to boost chicken production in the country", according to a statement released this Friday.
The industry discussed with the executive measures to increase the competitiveness and long-term sustainability of national chicken production, and several actions were defined such as the creation of a strategic reserve this year of raw materials for the production of feed (20,000 tons of corn and 10,000 tons of soybean meal to start) to maintain the sustainability of the sector throughout the year.
This strategic reserve will help to equalize prices in relation to international markets, according to the press release.
Stimulating chicken production will also be done through the acquisition, by the REA (National Strategic Reserve), of chicken that has difficulty accessing the market.
The producers also suggested the creation of a national poultry observatory made up of the executive and sector associations to monitor the sector's main performance indicators as well as the implementation of commitments made by the public and private sector.
"This production arrangement that creates the National Chicken Consortium will make production more competitive and considerably reduce dependence on imports, allowing the creation of jobs", also says in the press release.
