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Artisanal Fishing Support Centre of Nzeto

The Nzeto CAPA – Centro de Apoio à Pesca Artesanal (Artisanal Fishing Support Centre) was built in the second phase of the project and inaugurated in 2020. The Nzeto Centre is coordinated by IPA – Instituto de Desenvolvimento da Pesca Artesanal e da Aquicultura (Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Institute), and managed by one association composed of 43 cooperatives.
It has 2 conservation chambers, 1 ice factory, generator, fuel pump (does not work), has access to piped water and electricity, and a fishmeal factory that is yet to debut.
The services currently in operation are: fishing, processing, sale of ice and fish.
The centre has led to the creation of 32 direct jobs with employment contracts (from cleaning assistants to security guards, customer service, billing staff, processors, etc.), and 82 indirect jobs (salting workers, loaders, looters, fishermen processing outside the centre).
Meanwhile, It has already hosted the following trainings: fish processing and sales, maritime navigation, tilapia study, fish feed and fish meal manufacturing.

Artisanal Fishing Support Centre of Quicombo

The CAPA – Centro de Apoio à Pesca Artesanal (Artisanal Fishing Support Centre) of Quicombo was built in the first phase of the project and inaugurated in 2012.
The right to manage and operate this centre was assigned to 2 cooperatives. It is equipped with 1 conservation chamber, 1 ice machine, a processing area, a manual fishmeal grinder, 2 caleluias. The centre has benefited from a potential transformer of electricity.
It has the following services: sale and processing of fish, drying, sale of ice and flour and fish.
The usual fishing modality in Quicombo is artisanal seining.

Fishing centre – Egypt Beach

The centre, located in Benguela, about 30 km from the main road, was inaugurated in February 2020 and is currently in full operation.
There is 1 legally constituted cooperative in Egypt Beach with about 311 members (201 men and 110 women). The centre is managed by the cooperative and a local person.
It is equipped with 2 conservation chambers, an ice machine, a processing area, solar panels, generator, cutting equipment. It has 8 boats, 3 of which are motorized, and 2 caleluias.

Capanda Farm

A land of 100 hectares, located near the city of Cacuso, near the main road that connects Cacuso to Dondo, and with direct access to the Capanda dam through the farm, the property has a borehole and 2 reservoirs on the land, taking advantage of groundwater. The larger reservoir supplies the part of the farm across the road. All electricity is powered by solar energy. In terms of infrastructures, the property has conditions for the assembly of a feed mill, which is a perfect opportunity waiting for investment, given animal food rations have little supply, but a high demand in the region by local livestock producers. The property has a degradated structure ready to become an aviary, which can also be adapted to another type of farming. It also has a tree farm, previously exploited, but inactive. Currently, the production being made in the whole farm is only the growth of  “feet” or coffee seedlings. The land is suitable for planting fruit trees and coffee, but has the capacity to produce other crops such as soybeans, corn, etc.

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