How one farm in Angola was successfully created during the COVID-19 pandemic

How one farm in Angola was successfully created during the COVID-19 pandemic

The global pandemic has turned many economies upside down, but, in Angola, the country's agriculture sector is blooming. We look at how one company has pulled off something quite remarkable. Creating a farm, with foreign export ambitions, in just a matter of months despite the health challenge. Kaundo Farm“We're in Porto Amboim on the road that leads to the Kaundo Farm, where we have cleared more than 500 hectares of land and we have around 400 already in high production,” said João Macedo, CEO, Novagrolider as he shows us the farm. Quite a feat when you consider, just a year ago, this vast area of land in Kwanza Sul province, south of Luanda, lay abandoned. Angolan agricultural firm Novagrolider recognised the potential of this 10-thousand-hectare site. An attractive microclimate and rich, fertile soils too good to resist.“This land here is one of the best I have ever seen," said Macedo. "After doing (an) analysis, I saw there was no better in Angola.” Novagrolider invested, and grew a farm ready for harvesting within six months. And all this during the global pandemic.“The COVID-19 problem affects some things, but not in a way that stops us from carrying