The potato sector in Angola is working on the conditions to start exporting potatoes to Canada.
The Vice-President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Angola, hints that “about twenty Canadian entrepreneurs operating in the food industry would like to make the Central African country their main supplier of starch “.
According to the FAO, Angola produces an average of 800,000 tons of potatoes per year. Canada, for its part, is the 5th potato importer in the world.
Last year, Canada spent $103 million “for a purchase volume of around 250,000 tonnes, according to data compiled on the Trademap platform”.
In 2004, “more than 700 tons of potatoes were produced for consumption in the province of Huambo (centre), opening up excellent prospects for this region of the central plateau to regain, in the short term, its status as the largest producer of this potato in Angola”, according to official figures.
“We have enough surpluses and we will be able to compete in quality and price with imported potatoes,” said Paulo Kassoma, the provincial governor of Huambo, at the time.