Cattle of Camagüey increases sale of milk to the State

By:LuciloTejera Díaz

The affiliated producers to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in this county, increase the sale of milk to the State, and in the year overcome the 35 million liters.

That sector is to less than 15 millions of reaching the program of 2009 and it achieves in these moments about five millions above the registration in equal it dates of last year.

Alone for this growth, the producers avoided to the national economy the expenditure of more than a million 250 thousand dollars.

Erasmo García, official of the address of the ANAP in the territory, considered that one will be able to complete the program and to contribute an extra, in answer to the birdcall of the country of increasing the production, in order to reduce the imports of powdered milk and to cover the necessities.

Cuba dedicates this concentrated food or fluid for the children until the six years of age and sick people that acquire it for medical diet, besides giving it to hospitals, maternal homes, infantile circles and to elaborate derived.

Those cattlemen that are earth proprietors contained in cooperative, marketed with the State 47 millions 200 thousand liters in 2008.

If to this sinks the administration of state producers, Camagüey, that achieves more than the fourth part of the milk of cow of the nation, it surpasses the 56 million liters dedicated to the ministries of the Nutritious Industry and of Trade Interior.