Angola to harvest 12,000 tons of coffee this year.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)

CALULO -- The national agriculture sector will harvest 12,000 tons of coffee during the 2009 campaign, in comparison to the 5,000 tons harvested in 2008, the minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga announced at Cabuto farm, in coastal Kwanza Sul province.

By speaking at the official opening ceremony of the 2009 national coffee harvest campaign, the government official expressed his conviction that in the coming years the country will increase coffee production rates.

The governor of Kwanza Sul province, Serafim do Prado, national directors of the Ministry of Agriculture, coffee growers and other invited guests attended the opening ceremony of the 2009 national coffee harvest campaign.

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