Caracas: More than 5000 eaters of the Gran Colombia Educational Unit, the largest school in Latin America based in Caracas, consume vegetables and condiments from the work of the Cuban collaborators of Cuban agriculture.

Specialists, technicians and growers cultivate cucumber, tomato and pepper on a small scale to diversify the menu of teachers and students during the school year.

The coordinator of the program Manos a la Siembra in the school, professor Mari Trini Medina, says that together with the productions, there is also present the insertion of Venezuelans in the work of the field.

The cultivation in plots constitutes the technique used from a strategy of the Ministry of Urban Agriculture of the Venezuelan territory and the advice of Cuba to take advantage of the idle areas of the school, obtain food and establish an agrarian culture.

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