The president of the Cooperative of Cattle Breeders of Southern Angola, Carlos Dami\u00e3o, denounced that meat importers and related businesses are widely privileged by the State, while local producers face high costs, lack of credit, and absence of structural support.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Valor Econ\u00f3mico<\/em>, the leader stated that this inequality \u201cdiscourages national production\u201d and perpetuates dependence on imports.<\/p>\n According to Dami\u00e3o, national breeders struggle with added difficulties to produce competitively, while importers \u201chave state support, abundant energy, water, and market access facilities.\u201d For the cooperative\u2019s president, \u201cit seems there is more willingness to continue with importation than to support national producers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cImporters have a different structure: they have accountants, lawyers, PhDs, and other resources. With them, there are no problems. But we, the producers, don\u2019t have this support and face enormous constraints,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Dami\u00e3o explained that the high internal production costs put breeders at a clear disadvantage. \u201cIf we sell more expensively, it becomes cheaper to import. And so, people buy imported products. There is a huge imbalance against us,\u201d he warned. According to him, this scenario creates a permanent barrier to the growth of the national livestock sector.<\/p>\n In addition, access to credit remains limited. The leader accused banks of being unwilling to support livestock. \u201cBanks are always very cautious, full of problems. It is a sector that is not being treated with the dignity it deserves,\u201d he said, adding that the lack of agricultural insurance further blocks financing.<\/p>\n Although acknowledging government programs such as Planapecu\u00e1ria<\/strong> and Planagr\u00e3o<\/strong>, Dami\u00e3o believes their implementation falls short of actual needs and that the imbalance between producers and importers remains untouched. \u201cThere are many promises, but so far the situation is more or less the same,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n For the cooperative\u2019s president, current policies end up undermining Angola\u2019s food self-sufficiency. \u201cA country that wants to be competitive internally must call on its real producers, get to know them, and provide them with the proper support. Otherwise, we will continue to import meat and weaken our national breeders,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president of the Cooperative of Cattle Breeders of Southern Angola, Carlos Dami\u00e3o, denounced that meat importers and related businesses are widely privileged by the State, while local producers face high costs, lack of credit, and absence of structural support. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,69,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agri-food","category-business","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.negociosdeangola.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
High costs make importing more advantageous<\/h3>\n
Scarce credit and reluctant banks<\/h3>\n
Official programs fail to ease inequality<\/h3>\n
External dependence instead of production incentives<\/h3>\n