One works in all the properties of suburban agriculture in Camagüey

By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

In those more than a thousand 400 properties programmed to integrate the movement of the suburban agriculture that skirts the city of Camagüey one works already with the objective of supplying it of foods, informed the provincial delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture.

Darío Batista, official of that organism, said that the purpose is to have clever 75 productive units in the rest of the year.

The project is based in the property like main cell in the production, with the essential objective of cultivating viands and fruits to satisfy the demand of the population of the city of Camagüey, of 306 thousand inhabitants, the third in residents of Cuba number, although it also develops the cattle raising.

In many of the surfaces it is worked in dismounts of marabout, because they are terrestrial lazy of state entities that were given recently in usufruct by the Cuban government's disposition.
One of the conditions to be declared list is that are free of overgrowths, defined and under conditions of applying the sustainable agriculture, base of its practice.

The program of the suburban agriculture in Camagüey, approved in April of this year, begins starting from the highway that surrounds the city and expands 10 kilometers to the round , although it also implies to two rural communities beyond that extension.

In Enrique Kaida property, involved at the same time in a national program of feeds intensive or semintensive of bovine, one works in the construction of a ship to improve and to increase the cattle exploitation.

This will allow us to fatten 50 animals at the same time instead of 30 like we make now, the peasant expressed, integrated to the Cooperative of Credits and Services Julio Antonio Mella.

The movement of the suburban agriculture, which began in Camagüey, is already structured in the surroundings of cities of all the counties of the country.

Historians of the whole country discuss around the local history

By:Amaury M. Valdivia Fernández

With a debate about the local and regional history, and its importance in the context of the investigations of the call macrohistory, continued this Tuesday the sessions of the V Encounter of Regional and Local History that organizes the Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC).

The linking among the historical and cultural processes was stood out by those more than sixty intellectuals gathered in the event, in which presenters of the counties of Santiago de Cuba participate, Holguín, Granma, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, City of Havana and the own headquarters.

Investigations related with the historical sources and their protection, the archaeological prospectings, the agricultural development of different areas of the Island during the colonial period, the civic associations, and the architecture and the built patrimony, were among the main thematic analyzed in the six panels carried out during the day.

Already in the afternoon, also in the headquarters of the OHCC, was carried out the presentation of the book A fascinating history, The Conspiracy Trujillista, of the doctors Andrés Zaldívar Diéguez and Pedro Etcheverry Vázquez that had a wide and detailed conference toasted by the own Zaldívar and the doctor Reinaldo Suárez Suárez, professor of the University of East.

During the activity both specialists analyzed the characteristics of the Cuban reality to the victory of the Revolution and anlyzed the events happened then in October of 1959 by the betrayal of the major Húber Matos, of the one who detailed personal characteristics and the bonds that settled down with elements belonging to the Central Agency of Intelligence of the United States (CIA).

For today Wednesday, day of closing of the encounter, several theoretical sessions are foreseen among those that the panels stand out around the social and economic problems, the religion and society, and a special intervention about the imaginary urban that will impart the máster Félix Julio Alfonso, of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana.

Camagüey, mentions of the Cuban literature

By:Yanetsy León González

The Cuban literary creation will occupy the first planes of the cultural panorama of this city with the inauguration today of events of national reach, foreseen up to November 8.

Coincide in this occasion the XV Reward Emilio Ballagas, the XIV of Literature Ángel Escobar and the II Flores Party that claims the Spanish American poet's initiative Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, with his proposal of consistent Floral Games in the reading of poems and where the public only rewards.

With the presentation of the book City of poor hearts, of Legna Rodríguez will begin tonight the extensive program of actions that includes poets' reading, conferences, theoretical debates and the promotion of books and magazines published in other counties.

With special character will be carried out the homage to House of The America for the anniversary 50 of its foundation.

Among the most prospective moments stand out the delivery of the poetry prizes Emilio Ballagas and Ángel Escobar, summoned by the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature and the Association Hermanos Saíz, respectively.

Personalities of the culture like the writers attend Roberto Manzano, Rigoberto Rodríguez Entenza and Carlos Esquivel, besides Teresa Fornaris, specialist of the Center of Studies Dulce María Loynaz and Lourdes González, representative of Holguín Editions.

When referring to the impact of these events, the writer of Camagüey Alejandro González insisted in the traditional character of the convocations from final of the XX century, as well as the exchange about the interests of the creators and the current tendencies of the manifestation.