Angola sets up new aviary to increase egg production

ANGOLA – Angola, responding to the demand for eggs and eggs product in the country’s local market, has set up a new aviary with a capacity to produce 21,000 eggs per day.

The project by private initiative, was financed by the Angolan Investment Bank (BAI), in the amount of US$849,812.46 under the Program to Support Production, Diversification of Exports and Substitution of Imports (PRODES).

The aviary, which will be built in an area of ​​100 hectares, will have only 18 hectares being used in the first phase which has four aisles, one of which is for brood and three for the 21,000 laying hens.

According to the head of the aviary, Adriano Silva, the construction of the first phase of this project took two years, starting in June 2021, and currently employs 35 workers, out of the 100 jobs planned.

“In the second phase, the aviary will have four more breeding units, with a capacity for 15,000 chickens each, and the construction of a slaughterhouse to slaughter 1,500 chickens per day,” Adriano added.

“In addition to the placement of a cold storage room for the conservation of slaughtered birds, the aviary has installed incubators, with the capacity to incubate 20,000 chicks.”

According to the National Association of Poultry Producers of Angola, egg production is 65-70 million eggs per month.

The existing production infrastructure in Angola is geared toward egg production, as it is reportedly a more competitive product than chicken meat. 

Poultry production in Angola consists mainly of backyard flocks of chickens and a few commercial farms. The country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported in 2021 that 3,702 family farmers declared they owned 39,018 birds, resulting in an average of 11 birds per household. 

To increase production, the Angolan government created the Production Support, Export Diversification and Import Substitution Program (PRODESI), to support economic diversification in the country.

The main objective of the program is to reduce the country’s high economic dependence on the oil sector.

Another tool to boost production is the Credit Support Project (PAC) an instrument to facilitate the financing of private investment projects in PRODESI’s productive lines of goods and services, that was approved by the Council of Ministers on March 22, 2019 and is part of the PRODESI.

Driven by extensive government support, poultry production in Angola is forecast to increase to 42,000 mt in 2023, up 17% from 2022. 

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