At the local level, it is also imperative to banish the importing mentality and think about strategies that take into account the endogenous potential of the municipalities, based on self-sufficiency and food sovereignty.
This was stated yesterday by the member of the Political Bureau and president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández, who together with his vice president, Ana María Mari Machado, toured sites of economic and social importance in the municipalities of Remedios, Camajuaní and Santa Clara, as part of the government visit that concluded in Villa Clara.
Accompanied by the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Party in the province, Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez, and by the governor, Milaxys Yanet Sánchez Armas, they were at the Osvaldo Herrera packing ueb, in Camajuaní, belonging to the Villa Clara meat company, place where he spoke with his workers and became interested in factory production, which remains at 50% of its potential, mainly due to irregularities with raw material supplies.
How many lands are idle in the municipality? How much of these lands could be used in the production of animal feed or extenders to guarantee raw materials? Lazo Hernández inquired, while insisting on the relevance of drawing up, together, a strategy to promote the factory’s takeoff.
He referred to the need to carry out accurate contracting, which enables a direct relationship with pig producers, to recover production, in the midst of an international context also marked by inflation, which has skyrocketed the price of food in the world market. , which implies going to the national industry and obtaining raw materials on a territorial scale.
«When the problems are more complex, you have to think more and look for better strategies; But we need those ideas to materialize and not remain just projections,” reflected Lazo Hernández. In that sense, he alluded to the use of collective intelligence that emanates from popular participation, to place it in order to build a better society.
In addition to visiting the renowned tobacco producer Noel Rolando Benítez Fernández, from the Tahón popular council, in Remedios, and the d’yar project, from the Camajuan pork producer Yusdany Rojas Pérez, associated with the Juan Verdecia ccs, the President of the Council of State shared with the present at the 4 San Vicente de Paul nursing home, in the city of Santa Clara.
There he became interested in the care in an institution in which 33 workers work, who are responsible for the care of 25 older adults who reside permanently, and another 14 who are in the semi-internal category.
He praised the work they do and the importance of this type of centers in a province with an aging population, since more than 25% of Villa Clara residents are over 60 years old. The territory has 15 nursing homes and 27 grandparents’ homes.
The government visit to Villa Clara, as a prelude to the Provincial Government’s accountability to the anpp, evaluated aspects of vital importance, such as compliance with the economy plan, food production and control of prices and inflation.
