Agriculture in Angola Agriculture in Angola Agriculture in Angola has a tremendous potential. Angola is a potentially rich agricultural country, with fertile soils, a favourable climate, and about 57.4 million ha of agricultural land, including more than 5.0 million ha of arable land. Before independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola had a flourishing tradition of family-based farming and was self-sufficient in all major food crops except wheat. The country exported coffee and maize, as well as crops such as sisal, bananas, tobacco and cassava. By the 1990s Angola produced less than 1 percent the volume of coffee it had produced in the early
Santa Cruz, Angola Santa Cruz, Angola Santa Cruz (also called Milunga ) is a city and a county in Angola . Santa Cruz was one of the first objectives of the independence movement UPA ( "União das Populações do Norte de Angola" , from 1962 FNLA ), which began in March 1961, the Portuguese colonial war in Angola. The popular resistance of the local population, which consisted largely of Portuguese settlers, was propagated by Portuguese propaganda as a feat against terrorist attacks by insurgents who were sinking abroad. After Angola's independence in 1975, Santa Cruz, like many other places, abandoned its Portuguese place