People from Camagüey and the production of milk

Camagüey, with 90 million committed liters of milk for the 2009 and a very near figure average to that volume in the last years, is without doubts a power in the production of the food, given the real conditions of Cuba starting from the call Special Period.

Examples have more than enough of results, of experience and of rigor in that science mixture and art that becomes those that the experts know as "cattle culture" that is nurtured of the technology and of the accumulated knowledge of those men that consecrate their life to fight with the animals and against setbacks of all type, included the materials, the meteorological ones and those that are classified as "subjective."

Can make an appointment, without being anecdotic neither selective, basic units as the "Homeland or Death" and "The Peace" that take more than one decade surrendering above a million liters; the Cooperatives of Agricultural Production "Martyrs of Cascorro" and "Jesus Suárez Gayol" that also exhibit that mark in more than an opportunity, or the most recent in achieving it as that of Credits and Services "Niceto Pérez" that intends to complete the two millions this year.

And everything it with difficulties, with wire lack, with droughts, hurricanes or torrential cloudbursts, with mire until the knees, a torrid heat or a cold that it shrinks to the most weatherbeaten. With lack of ropes, boots, cántaras, cubes, machetes and files, that knows it (and it suffers it in flesh and blood) a lot of people.

Then what does limits us beyond the objective thing? Why in the county 34 units do only intend the million for the 20l2 or before? Which is it the reason that some communities have left that group of advanced, when a single cattleman surpassed in the 2008 the 200 000 liters and in the current one 2009 do determine to complete the 300 000?

We return then to the key element: the human being, that that doesn't repair in obstacles that doesn't have festival days neither Sundays that watches over the smallest marabout bud to pull up it and that by force of arms it conquers day by day in the combat against the thorny plant; the same one that calls for their name to each cow or calf, and worries when an animal limps, or
walks sad. That that continues with rigorous punctuality the hour of the I milk and seed in advance the cane and the king grass for the bad months.

There is a long list of factors that determine in the production milkmaid: the genetic quality of the flock, starting from the artificial insemination, the resources like the one thinks specialized, the wire for pastizals, the materials to build good dairy houses or the unavoidable and inevitable repair of the roads: but the man should assume with responsibility what corresponds him, as the application of twice as much I milk, the forage reservation for the drought, and the sistematicity in the attention to the animals. For it are not necessary big investments, only to put in the palaestra that that yes decides, and that calls himself will.(Ernesto Pantaleón Medina )