Accompanied by the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales, the president spoke in Yara with strategic groups for economic and social development, and with the population, the Presidency reported on the X social network.
According to the source, the first secretary of the PCC also began his work agenda for the Emilio Harryman rice cooperative, belonging to the Antonio Maceo base business unit, which last year failed to meet its production plans.
However, due to the strengthening of the group and the application of bioproducts, they achieved profits at the end of the first quarter of 2024.
The cooperative has more than 1,200 hectares with a good yield of four tons per hectare.
At that site, the president urged doing different things at different times, and stated that Granma should aspire to be self-sufficient in the demand for rice with national seeds.
Through this path we can respond to the demand for rice consumption in the country, he noted.
The head of state also visited a local development project aimed at supporting the construction of housing with the fundamental use of mud to make bricks, and inquired there about the working conditions, the sustainability of the raw materials and the income of the workers.
This initiative did not reach profits last year but in 2024, with the increase in productive capacities, it managed to insert other lines, such as tiles and tiles.
He also toured the various crops area of the El Palmar Basic Cooperative Production Unit (UBPC), with an area of 40 hectares that was benefited with a new central pivot irrigation machine.
The equipment allows increasing the rotation of crops each year, such as sweet potato, banana, cassava, among others.
Díaz-Canel insisted there on the need to diversify productions, as one of the keys to making the population’s diet sustainable.
The president of Cuba also visited the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba this day, and the day before he went to Guantánamo.
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