Qualify as encouraging Cuban production of food for pigs

By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

After 18 months of application, a special project in the Movement of the Urban Agriculture offers encouraging results in the production at local level of food for feeds of pigs.

Adolfo Rodríguez, boss of the national group that directs and controls that practice of supply in cities, towns and communities,said that the experience is demonstrating the viability of assuring to the animals a high percentage of nutrients for its development.

In the practice, the unit called Finca Integral Swinish cultivates annually in some 27 hectares plants of grains and gramineous carrier of energy and protein in the diet of 267 pigs until the weight sacrifice of around 90 kilograms.

The project consists on developing one of these experimental entities in the special municipality of the Youths Island and in each one of 13 counties, except that of City of Havana.

The idea is that in a second stage of the plan the swinish companies only contribute to the producers in the properties 30 percent of the food cared that needs the conventional mass of pigs.

Raciel Bello, of the Integral Institute of Swishing Investigations and member of the group, explained that the units dedicate a part of the surface to the breeding of patio animals and the cultivation of foods of the agriculture for the family supply.

The rest, the biggest extension, is dedicated to the production of corn, cane of sugar, sorghum, sunflower and soy, each one with the preponderance that allow the floors.