LUANDA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Angola spent more than 2 billion U.S. dollars on food imports in 2022, up 40 percent over the previous year, an official of the country's central bank said Wednesday.
According to Joel Fute, the director of the Statistics Department of the National Bank of Angola (BNA), among the imported products, palm oil, rice, cooking oil, sugar and chicken leg topped the list.
In terms of wheat flour, Fute said Angola can be considered self-sustaining, with an annual production of 500,000 metric tons, and there is no "need to spend so much currency on importing these products."
Jose de Lima Massano, the governor of the BNA, said Wednesday at a meeting with business people from the food industry that the central bank would continue to improve the business environment and facilitate the relationship with the financial market. ■