Evaluate in Camagüey new technology for rice seed

Camagüey, 8 Sep. - Specialists of the Institute of Investigations of the Rice, evaluate in Camagüey a technology of rice seed for transplant that use producing of Japan, with the one that increase the agricultural yields of the grain notably.

Jesus Limia, director of the Experimental Station of that cultivation, in the municipality of Vertientes-distant municipality to some 26 kilometers of the city of Camagüey, explained that the project began to be applied this year and consists on the obtaining of a sustrate stuck to the roots of the little trees when are taken out of the nurseries.

People who work in the Rice seed of Camagüey, in its majority peasants, plants for this method up to 40 square meters, in two or three working hours, the investigator specified.

The seed for transplant, is more effective because is carried out with the best seeds and the fields fomented with this technology contribute from two to three tons for hectare above what is achieved with the traditional method. (Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez)