Mayabeque, Cuba__ During the second day of the III International Congress of Horticulture, the delegates could verify, in open field, the realities of the attention and variability of the cultivations as a guarantee of the food security.

In a tour carried out through two productive units, linked to the Liliana Dimitrova Horticultural Investigations Institute (IIHLD by its Spanish initials), the visitors could confirm in the practice the advances in agro ecology and the local benefits achieved by important centers as Commanding Manuel Fajardo sugar mill, which contribute with nutrients derived from its productive process, the Reproductive Center of Entomófagos and Entomopatógenos, Cuba 10 Bio process UEB and IIHLD.

As part of the program of the conclave, Doctor Theodor Friederich, representative of the United Nations Organization for the Agriculture and the Feeding (FAO) in Cuba, in his conference about food security, emphasized how the agriculture and especially the horticulture outlined the strategic objectives of FAO to reduce the hunger, also together with the Latin American and Caribbean Community of States, (CELAC).

Two multimedias from the center, sponsor of the Congress, and the University of the Computer Sciences that link this specialty with the agriculture were also presented to the participants..

Commercial entities as Chemical MERISTEM and the Fabrez Group, both from Spain, exposed some of their products, while the Institute of Fundamental Investigations in Tropical Agriculture Alejandro de Humboldt", (INIFAT), UEB Bioprocesos Cuba 10 and Liliana Dimitrova, exhibited their scientific current work.

Musician Osmel Francis with his project Cubanos en la Red which precisely promotes this theme of Agriculture conservation, joined the activity and was very applauded by the audience, also together to the community project Arte Sanfelipeño, national prize in its modality.

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