Luanda — Angola's Unaca-Confederation and the Brazilian Cooperatives Organisation (OCB) on Monday in Luanda manifested the wish to create within a year, an industrial complex for organic fertilisers production, in Angola, so as to benefit both countries' family farmers.

The intention was manifested during a meeting between the board of Unaca-Confederation headed by its chairperson, Paulo Uime, and an OCB delegation headed by the organisation's deputy chairman, Roberto Coelho da Silva.

Speaking in the meeting, Roberto Coelho da Silva said that a partnership for the exploration of fertilisers between the two institutions will represent the main strategic partnership that cooperative association can provide, because the fertilisers constitute the basis that sustain the activity of farmers.

In terms of costs, the official said that farmers spend on an average, in the purchase of fertilisers, 80 per cent of the total cost of the production. "According to this partnership in the field of cooperative association, we wish that farmers revert this scenario and produce in the most adequate conditions", he explained.

On his turn, the chairman of the executive board of Unaca-Confederation of peasants and cattle-breeders associations on Angola, Paulo Uime, said that the country is willing to co-operate with Brazil in the fertilisers exploration field.

"Although we intend to produce more organic fertilisers to protect the soils, we think that with the potentiality in phosphorus and other raw materials that the country has to produce organic Fertilisers, we also want to produce chemical fertilisers to increase the offer", he stressed.

Paulo Uime said in the occasion that the biggest potential of phosphorus in Angola are in the northern Zaire and Cabinda provinces, therefore it would be a contribute for the agricultural sector "if both organisations could produce and distribute fertilisers to Angolan and Brazilian farmers".

To materialise this intention, the chairperson of Unaca- Confederation said that the institution will request technical and financial supports from the governmental authorities.

The Brazilian delegation of OCB is since Sunday in Luanda, to share experience with Angolan farmers and consolidate bilateral relations in the ambit of the technical cooperation signed between the two organisations on 24 April 2007, in Brazil.