Determined forest of Camagüey in increasing the forests of the county

Near 500 thousand hectares conform the forest patrimony of the county of Camagüey, that of bigger territorial extension of Cuba, of them some 300 thousand are only covered with natural, and very few forests are the areas with young plantations in the current year, to what is added that are still near 100 uninhabited of trees.

If in what is of 2010 was possible to increase the forest covering of the territory, Camagüey will only report something more than 22 percent of its areas covered with forests, what demands of an increase in the plantations, because nowadays this territory is that of lower covering boscose in the bigger than the Antilles.

Who are made responsible with this task, are not crossed of arms, so it is so the territory has been able to incorporate 77 percent of that that seed, allowing to grow in more than 750 hectares.

The drop boscose covering is for the most part causing of the forest fires, and in this sense the affected municipalities have been Camagüey and Esmeralda, which share great extension of San Felipe's plateau, punished severely in the last years by those catastrophes.

At the moment and by means of the delivery of lands in usufruct, conditions are believed for, in feasible places for it, to create some 20 properties, and of this the worker and their family will have their houses in the own area dedicated to the forest or near plantations to them.

So far, in the county had taken place more than four thousand 200 postures, fundamentally of trees , and are executed with effectiveness tasks like the reinstatement of flaws, maintenances, and seed of alive, fruit-bearing posts, plant melliferous and band that have a decisive work hidrorregulator around the reservoirs.(Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez )