More than 50,000 tons of various agricultural products were harvested in the current agricultural campaign in the municipality of Nhârea, province of Bié, 20,000 more than in the previous season.
According to the municipal director of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Nhârea, Hélder Huambo, in statements to the press, as part of the balance of the agricultural campaign that ended, of the harvested crops, maize, beans, rice, wheat, reindeer potatoes stand out. and sweet, soy, manioc, ginger and sesame.
Hélder Huambo said that this increase in production results from the regularity of rain and support given by the Government, mainly in the assistance of agricultural inputs, tractors and ploughs to peasant families and training actions for farmers.
Another positive element, according to him, are the cultivation areas which at this time reached over 100,000 hectares, 20,000 more than in the last campaign.
The municipality of Nhârea, which has a population of approximately 150,000 inhabitants, has 36 field schools, with close to 1,200 families.
There are 16 peasant associations and six cooperatives. More than 20,000 children will be immunized against polio in Nhârea Twenty-eight thousand and five hundred children from six months to five years old, in the municipality of Nhârea, province of Bié, will begin to be immunized, as of the 24th of August, against the polio.
The campaign, which aims to prevent children from various illnesses, will run until the 28th of the same month. The little ones will also take vitamin A.
The activity will include more than 10,000 doses of vaccines, as well as 174 vaccinators, who will visit the municipal headquarters and the communes of Gamba, Dando, Caieie and Lúbia.
According to the municipal director of Health in Nhârea, Aclino Rodrigues Chivinda Sanjala, who was speaking at the closing act of the training seminar in which the 174 vaccinators participated, the logistical and human conditions have been created for the success of this campaign.
For this reason, he appealed to families to join this event, taking the minors to fixed posts as well as receiving vaccinators in their homes, in order to guarantee a healthier future for children.
