Mayabeque, Cuba__ The Local Agricultural Innovation Project (PIAL), comes to an end to become SIAL, Local Agricultural Innovation System, the Mayabeque newspaper publishes.

The system will have the local governments as leaders, with the support of teachers from the Municipal University Centers, the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), the f Young Communists League (UJC), the Directorate of Culture and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) among other institutions of the Community.

The SIAL is an instrument that allows stimulating and channeling the processes of innovation necessary to solve the problems that hinder the integral development of the municipalities.

The success of this tool lies in the active and joint participation and networking of producers, entrepreneurs and institutions in different sectors.

The SIAL's work focuses on the resources available to research the needs of farmers, use their experiences to stimulate diversification and increase production in a sustainable way, facilitate the exchange between peasants and them with teachers of university and research centers in the Municipalities.

Currently, 45 municipalities in 10 provinces of the country have the Local Agricultural Innovation System in various degrees of development and 18 have already begun their actions.

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