Mayabeque, Cuba: Farmer Osdrey Dorta Horta produces a silage for animal feeding for dark coat pigs, at the Credit nd Services Cooperative (CCS by its Spanish initials) Porfirio Álvarez of the municipality of Güines, in Mayabeque.
This proven quality nutrient made from cassava, pumpkin and sweet potato allows increasing the weight of the animals and substitutes between 40 and 60 percent the use of highly expensive feed in the foreign market.
It can be preserved in honey, sour milk, whey or vinasse, to sustain the animals that he has acclimatized on his farm and is the one that gives him the best results, according to Dorta Horta.
In a period of four or five months, the pigs gain between 200 and 210 pounds, an adequate weight to slaughter and sell them, taking into account the agreements with several entities.
Osdrey Dorta comments that he also has high fattening productions and another part is destined for the consumption of his family and for sale in the community where the CCS is located.
To maintain the feeding of 60 and 70 animals that he has in his extension of land throughout the year, he sows cassava, sweet potatoes and pumpkins with seeds of proven quality that the Local Agricultural Innovation Program provides him.
The animal feed that this farmer produces for the food of the pigs allows the savings of his private economy and of the cooperative because he avoids buying these products at high prices, in times they don´t have the raw material to elaborate them.
Indira La O Herrera
Periodista en Radio Mayabeque
