Mayabeque, Cuba: The organic garden of the Credit and Service Cooperative Ismael Troncoso, from Melena del Sur, is part of local development strategies.
The CCS provides not only the vegetables needed by their associates, the Special School The Golden Age of the territory and the supply of their points of sale but also serves as a center of attention to circles of interest of the neighboring school institution 5 de Noviembre.
According to its president, Frank González Batista, at this moment in the organoponic they are setting up an irrigation system to start producing the 30 pounds per capitas as the country needs it.
“The practices carried out in the cultivation of onion, chard, okra, tomato, among others guarantee the necessary safety of these products?, the president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) Deibis Alfonso García, says.
“The creation of organoponics has a great advantage in the purpose that today moves ANAP, in search of the production of food for the people because it helps to reduce costs of inputs by using organic material, any space is taken advantage of and the benefits it provides nature?, Alfonso García added.
