In spite of the drought Camagüey power the cultivation of the rice

By :Yeter Palmero / Television Camagüey

In spite of the drought Camagüey power the cultivation of the rice While the industrialized nations in the orb unfulfilled their commitments in connection with the Objectives of the Millennium adopted by 189 nations in the year 2000, Cuba advances in that observance in spite of its condition of poor and blocked country.

These limits pick up the results and aspirations of United Nations for the peace, the development and the respect to the rights and people's integrity. The General Secretary of the UN Ban Ki-moon, in an encounter with Bruno Rodríguez, Cuban Secretary of External Relationships, qualified of impressive the achievements of the island in connection with the ODM.

At the moment, among other vital questions, power the agricultural development to guarantee a better nutrition in the Cuban population and to diminish the effects of the global crisis.

The rice is one of the cultivations that internationally has been affected by climatic changes and natural phenomena. Specifically the county of Camagüey will conclude the 2010 with some 16 800 planted hectares of that grain, calculates that it overcomes the dear plan for the period.

Nevertheless, the gathering will be below the 40 thousand foreseen tons. The drought that maintains depressed to the 53 reservoirs of the territory has affected the watering cycles severely. It is considered that each chivalry planted for its complete development needs about 1600 cubic meters of water. At the moment the reservoirs of the county are at a 46, 8% of their storage capacity.

However, in spite of that situation to the closing of the year the farmers of Camagüey hopes to contribute some 30 thousand tons of rice millered for the population's consumption. This refers a great effort, as long as it points out that with a smaller sowed surface that in the 2009, similar results will be reached.

Camagüey constitutes the third county more producer of rice in the country. Their flat geography contributes Its potentialities for the development of the cultivation, together to the fact that is the territory in Cuba that has the biggest number of Cooperative of Agricultural and Cooperative Production of Credits and Services belonging to the movement of the 100 thousand quintals of rice.