Plant as much as possible during this time to take advantage of the spring and the humidity of the soil, which reduces the need for irrigation, indicated José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and head of its Agri-Food department. during his most recent work visit to Camagüey.
In Esmeralda, where they are trying to recover 1,200 hectares of land, lost eight years ago to marabou and other weeds, 600 are being prepared for a first stage, of which a significant part will be ready before the end of the spring campaign and this way to revitalize what was once the San Juan de Dios productive center.
The Municipal Agroindustrial Company, the Construction Company of Works for Tourism (ECOAT) and the AZCUBA Sugar Group are part of this effort. The party leader insisted on not repeating the reasons why what was planted there was already lost, which also means loss of resources and money for the country. On this site it is intended to plant banana and cassava, mainly. In addition, it has a canal system, irrigation equipment and water very close by.
Monteagudo Ruiz also reached Vertientes, to the Santa Rosa and Ignacio Agramonte productive centers, the latter with the demand for a greater workforce that he indicated he would supply with mobilizations and the support of the community.
In Santa Rosa he was able to verify the genetic quality of the biofactory’s vitroplants and learned that in this effort to improve yields they plan to produce 800,000 vitroplants this year, which have proven to have greater strength, adaptability and rapid development. Just a few months ago this site had only six hectares in production and today they have 162.
Places like those visited show that, despite the lack of inputs and fuels, agriculture requires a lot of work and it is possible, in current conditions, to bring forward lost land in marabou so that productions can shine that are reverted to food for the people, It also shows that work cannot be lost as has already happened, this would be wasting the few resources available. Sow is the command word.
