Mayabeque, Cuba__ A paradisiacal site of nature, where man's hand is added to improve it, is precisely the representative enclave of the municipality of Quivicán: the Liliana Dimitrova Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHLD), which not only names a scientific institution, but a collective of excellence that radiates its productions to the whole nation.

In 1971, on the basis of Resolutions of the Cuban-Bulgarian Intergovernmental Commission for collaboration, both economic and scientific-technical, and with the objective of evaluating at the production scale the technologies that existed in Bulgaria for the production of vegetables, Liliana Dimitrova Experimental Horticultural Farm is created, located in the municipality of Güira de Melena, in the old province of Havana, now Artemisa province.

In 1981, in compliance with guidances from the State's top management and the Ministry of Agriculture, in order to increase research-production links, the Experimental Station was transferred to the municipality of Quivicán, next to the 19 de Abril Crop Company, specialized in horticultural production.

Today that centers incluedes men and women of science. 45 years ago, its founders did not dream of the current results: a center that provides products, technologies and services that meet the demands of the environment and with a highly valuable environmental impact for the country.

Tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and other crops give flavor to the tables of Cubans, with the effort of those who work here. In the same way of its laboratories and associated productive bases emerge condiments and beautiful flowers.

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