Cuban agriculture will grow in more than 600 thousand hectares

By:Alfredo Carralero Hernández

The municipality of Camagüey stands out especially in this novel program.

Cuba will incorporate starting from January next 600 thousand new hectares to the production of foods by means of the program of the suburban Agriculture, highlighted today Adolfo Rodríguez, boss of the National group of that front.

[The municipality of Camagüey stands out especially in this novel program.]

In an encounter with producers and directive of the system of the agriculture in the county of Holguín, Rodríguez meant that it is an initiative to bring near more, to the municipal and provincial heads, those feasible lines of taking place with a better employment of the resources.

He highlighted the previous work that develop the 17 municipalities pilot in the country to undertake the program, especially that of Camagüey that applies for seven months first experiences about this form of exploiting the lands.

This new procedure, indicated, part of the creation of near properties to the urban areas - as basic concept - and it is based in the diversification of the most varied possible agricultural productions, as cow milk, meat of smaller livestock, viandas and fruit-bearing, among others.

Others of the principles that will distinguish to the suburban agriculture, Rodríguez argued, will be the proximity from the areas of cultivations to the consumers, increment of the force of animal traction, a system of more agile commercialization and the saving of fuels.

This agriculture form, pointed, has to be developed starting from the interests and necessities of each territory, so that the productions flow in the smallest possible time, breaking all burocratism, outlines or obstacles.

The municipalities that will enter in this program in January are, Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Palma Soriano, Bayamo, The Tunas, Holguín, Ciego de Ávila, Cabaiguán, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Colón, Cotorro, Bejucal, San José de la Lajas, Artemisa and Pinar del Río, besides the surroundings of New Gerona.

The setting in practice of this agricultural modality is inserted in the country after the 15 years of positive experiences in the development of the urban agriculture, dedicated to the cultivation of vegetables, programs to the front of which Rodríguez has remained.