3 July 2009
Sirte — The programme of rehabilitation of infrastructure and support to production, which is implemented by the government between 2002 and 2006 throughout the country, has created 570,000 jobs in the farming sector.
This was said on Wednesday evening by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, when he was addressing in Sirte City, Libya, the 13th Summit of Heads of State and Government, under the theme "Investing in agriculture for achieving economic growth and food security. "
According to him, since the peace achievement in 2002 until 2006, the area of agriculture exploration in the country increased from 3.5 million hectares to seven million hectares.
Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos said that Angola has an irrigable range of about 6.7 million hectares, of which 3.4 million can be used for exploration by traditional irrigation.
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