Luanda, 11/11 - The Angolan Government defined for 2005/2006 farming season an increase set at five percent, with the purpose of improving the sector's contribution to the State Budget, fighting poverty and to guarantee permanent and healthy food to the population.
It was revealed on Thursday in Luanda, by the director-general of the Institute of Agrarian Development (IDA), Afonso Pedro Canga, in a lecture on "The importance of the agrarian sector in the national reconstruction", included in the festivities of the country's 30 years of independence, being celebrated today, November 11.
According to the official, in order to reach this objective, the Government outlined priorities like the rehabilitation of productive infrastructures, promotion of rural development, agronomic and veterinary research and the rehabilitation of roads and railways throughout the country.
Mr Canga added that other objective of this government programme is to guarantee the country's economic, social and political stability. For the discussant, it is impossible to separate the farming activity from the people way of living anywhere in the world.
IDA director-general referred that the government also wants to dignify a sector that employs more than 60 percent of the Angolan people and contributes with only eight percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).