The 1,200 tons per day of wheat flour that the company Grandes Moagens of Angola (GMA) expects to produce, from the first quarter of 2017 may be the largest on the continent, said its administrator Cesar Rasgado.
On the continent, the countries taken as a reference in wheat processing into flour produce between 600 to 700 tons per day, so the GMA manager believes that in terms of productive capacity the new industry will have no parallel. The references in wheat transform domain in Africa cited by the entrepreneur are Morocco, Benin and Nigeria – the latter has an industry with some similarity to that GMA is assembling in the Port of Luanda.
The project will only turn the raw material, the bulk wheat to be imported from the USA, France, Germany and Kazakhstan. On the purpose of this matter, Cesar Rasgado said they expect support from the Angolan State in the purchase of foreign currency to import the raw material, being a structural industry that fits in the country’s industrialization programs.