Mayabeque, Cuba: The Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, toured agricultural areas of Mayabeque in order to verify the implementation of the Ordering Task.
At the Batabanó Urban Farm, he learned about large-scale tomato productions, corn for import substitution, the price of food sold in Acopio, and the marketing in the country’s capital.
In exchange with farmers, he had details of the crop rotation at this stage, the introduction of the technological package and the use of bio-fertilizers to increase the yields in the field.
The best guavas in the municipality of Batabanó are harvested at Los Víctor Farm of the Ciro Redondo Credit and Services Cooperative.
The Vice President of the Republic of Cuba arrived there to talk with the farmer Amaury Menéndez Hernández and learn about the red dwarf variety, its peculiarities, destination of the productions, commercialization and hiring of the workforce.
Finca Aranguito 5 in Melena del Sur has a culture of producing quality land. This is one of those that can contribute to making Cuba a garden in which we obtain food for the people, Salvador Valdés Mesa said.
In this site they also grow taro of the Falunga and 10 variety, as well as imported potatoes from Mexico 8.
The peasants Rafael García and José Ariel Lozada provided information on the rotation of crops with corn and cucumber, the employment of the workforce, the actions of the Ordering Task related to food production and contracting of field supplies.
Valdés Mesa also specified the need to increase yields.
The Vice President’s tour also included the Héctor Molina Power Plant in San Nicolás. This industry in the present harvest improves the efficiency indicators compared to previous years.
However, the greatest difficulties today are in the Producers Service Units to guarantee the raw material.
Valdés Mesa, when meeting with the workers, urged them to grind efficiently and make an adequate distribution of profits, produce for export, take advantage of favorable prices in the international market, and contribute energy to the national electrical energy system.
