Peasants increase seed of rice in Camagüey

[At the end of April the crop of the grain will begin.]

The peasants contained in cooperative in this county,grew the seed of rice in some two thousand hectares of November from 2009 to March of the current year, in connection with same precedent stage.

That is the answer that Cuba claims to buy less abroad, expressed Orlando Lugo Fonte, president of the National Association of small Farmers (ANAP), in an encounter with producing of the territory.

In the period, the surface that received seed ascended to six thousand 276 hectares, almost twice as much that what had been foreseen, informed Idelino Álvarez, director of the Agroindustrial Complex Rice Route Invasora.

In accordance with the yields of last year, that area can toast more than 10 thousand tons of the molined grain, and to the current prices in the world market means that Cuba would stop to care the food for a superior figure to the six million dollars.

Also, it represents little less than half of what the population of the county acquires normated in one year for the family basket.

The agrarian increased the planted lands considerably, thanks to the delivery in usufruct of lands state idlers and to the one dismounts of infested fields of overgrowths, mainly marabout, and that incorporate to this production.

The peasants also look for solutions, as the construction of wells to assure a source of water for the irrigation,manifested Arturo Durán, president of the Cooperative of Credits and Services (CCS) Manuel Ascunce.

That entity sold in 2009 to the State 100 thousand quintals (four thousand 600 tons) of humid rice, the first of its type in achieving it in the country.

Nelson González who directs the Agroindustrial Group Rice in Cuba, informed that the nation invests in favor of this economy, and mentioned that to Camagüey were assigned abroad recently acquired teams for the maintenance of the viales and channels of irrigable.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz)