Mayabeque, Cuba: Family farming grows in Batabanó, one of the objectives of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), to achieve food security and sovereignty by providing healthy and quality productions.
The intercropping and the combination of different productions in the same area, allow using the benefits of some with respect to others, characteristic of this type of agriculture.
The President of the ANAP in Batabanó, Yanira Otaño, highlighted that this strategy makes it possible to reach significant volumes of products, vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and grains that are sold directly and fresh in each locality. This is how they respond to the call of the highest management of the country to increase the delivery of food to the people.
Today in the cooperatives of Batabanó the work in the orchards attended with biological products is reinforced, guaranteeing food free of chemicals and toxins.
The systematic work from the peasant farms and the existing productive patios, incorporate the families and motivate the new generations to take an interest in the trade of working the land.
It is an option for producers like Raúl Hernández, who with more than 70 years continues to work alongside his sisters and grandchildren, has a variety of crops such as red okra, chili, cucumber melon, eggplant and spinach.
