Mayabeque, Cuba_ The province of Mayabeque is preparing to plant in the current cold season more than 17 600 hectares, the website of Mayabeque newspaper publishes.

Carlos Suárez Álvarez, head of the Department of Various Crops of the Agricultural and Forestry Business Group, said that the main line is the potato with about 1900 hectares, besides the tomato, which has a fundamental component with the canning industry, which must receive some seven thousand tons and the will also sow bean and varied vegetables. Among the viands are malanga, sweet potato and cassava, he said.

Some of them are basically productions for the end of the year and the first months of 2017. The figures include the contribution of all the productive forces that make up the group.

The official said that all the conditions are created to develop an efficient campaign and, if the climate allows, to achieve better yields and he added that the necessary fertilizers are available for this cold season, which will have a significant impact in the attention to the fields, he said.

In this aspect, besides Labiofam, there is the contribution of our Centers for Reproduction of Entomophages and Entomopathogens (CREE) that also respond to the phytosanitary protection.

We have received a strong injection of machinery that has made possible to deal more easily with land preparation and other work, the executive said.

We are going to close the year close to fulfilling the plan, even though at the beginning it was very affected by climatic reasons.

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