Camagüey, and its environmental calendar

By: Yuldys Márquez / Television Camagüey

It is necessary to understand that environmental quality is quality of life. To preserve the natural resources: the floor, the forests, the waters, the quality of the atmosphere, bears to preserve our lives. It is necessary to act in a preventive way in favor of the environment, with independence of the economic limitations that we face. The political will of the region and the chore of responsible men, of companies and institutions, had made that Camagüey achieves favorable results in the indicators of environmental quality.

Entities like Mechanical Plant and ENCOMED that manage chemical products and dangerous waste, adopted measures in their Plans of Handling, so that these practices are carried out in a sure way. The Ministry of the Alimentary Industry, in the county of Camagüey, in particular its swinish activity and in the construction or maintenance of lagoons of oxidation, has diminished its polluting load with actions directed to it and the commitment of their workers. The territory of Camagüey, also, according to the Directive one 1/2010 of the President of the Council of National Defense in the county the Studies of Danger, Vulnerabilities and Risk are developed before disasters. In this study is in final phase the paragraphs: Floods for penetrations of the sea, Floods for intense rains and strong winds, while the studies of Drought and Technological Disasters are in initial phase, according to chronogram.

In a same way favorable actions could be mentioned in Santa Lucía's tourist pole, in the provincial system of protected areas, and in the environmental education. The implementation of a work sustained before during years in the variables mentioned makes of the county of Camagüey an area where the results are felt by the care of the Environment. In greeting to the World Day of the Environment, June five, the group Cubanacán of Camagüey was headquarters of the provincial act. The hotel great club Santa Lucía, of this corporation, received to the companies for, in its properties, to recognize the work of organisms, institutions, and people.

Under the motto “To respect the Life is to assure the future”, the delegate of the group Cubanacan in Santa Lucía Teresa Rodríguez, assured that the achievements reached in this sector owe fundamentally to a work system implemented during years. The CITMA gave the condition of territorial environmental recognition to the deposit of combustible CUPET Camagüey, to the practical of the port of Santa Cruz del Sur, and to the hotels, Mayanabo, Breezes Santa Lucía and Club Amigo Caracol.

Grant the name of Ignacio Agramonte to University of Camagüey

The name of Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz were granted officially to the University of Camagüey, after having concluded the legal process for the identification to institutions and state entities. It is materialized this way an old yearning of inhabitants' of The Adult's earth several generations.

Primera built by the Revolution, the house of high studies of Camagüey has graduated to professionals of Cuba thousands and other nations in its 43 years of work - reasonable in its majority of nations of the call Third World -, in the most diverse branches in the knowledge.

The graduated Tamira González Jiménez, functionary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Camagüey, gave reading to the agreement adopted by the Commission of History in the territory that highlights the materialization of the objective of the community of students, professors and workers.

The document that credits the name of Ignacio Agramonte and Loynaz granted to the University of Camagüey, received the doctor Lianet Golla Céspedes, rector of the center, of hands of Julio Cesar García Rodríguez, first secretary of the Party in the county. (Eric Pacheco Fandiño)

Camagüey foments cultivations covered against solar radiations

The agriculture in the county uses the cultivation covered in almost 17 hectares, in order to harvest in months of high environmental temperatures some varieties of vegetables characteristic of the winter season.

Enormous meshes serve from parasol to the fields and facilitate a reduction of about the third part from the solar radiation of May to September, creating a favorable atmosphere for the development of plants as tomato, carrot, lettuce, beet, melon, cucumber and pepper.

Ricardo Morell, boss of the Department of Science and Technique in the delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture (MINAG), said to the AIN that the cover is one of the actions directed to adapt the agricultural exploitation to the effects of the climatic change.

Also, it constitutes an advance in the purpose of elevating the production of those foods in any time of the year.

The use of this technology has two variants, that of protected cultivation and that of semiprotected.

In the first one the mesh covers the whole seed area, included the lateral ones, while in the other one it is only the part of up.

Benito Vega, specialist of the MINAG, explained that one works in the recovery of little more than hectare and he mediates of the calls houses of protected cultivation, damaged by the hurricanes of 2008 when could not be disassembled.

The crops in those facilities that ascended to some 200 tons during the current year, are dedicated to the service of the tourism, in order to take advantage of part of the revenues in the maintenance of the infrastructure and in the acquisition of inputs for the plantations.

Guillermo Rivera, also of the MINAG, pointed out that the semiprotected is developed in organoponics of the movement of the urban agriculture, with more than 500 tons of products gathered in 2010.

At the moment one works to create cultivation conditions covered in other two surfaces in agricultural use.(LuciloTejera Díaz)