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Under the Angola’s production recovery programme its first cotton harvest in the provinces of Malanje and Kwanza Sul is scheduled for July with a symbolic result of 200 tonnes. Angola’s cotton production, following independence, in 1975 had virtually ceased due to the civil war, which ended in 2002.
The Ministry of Agriculture staffer and coordinator of the cotton production recovery programme, Carlos Canza, said that an area of 242 hectares was planted, and each hectare will produce one ton of seed cotton, which is insufficient to meet the needs of the textile industry in the country.
