Peasants of the municipality of Florida contribute to the production of rice

The reduction of imports is vital for the economy of the country, and in its materialization the special programs are developed that leads the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in Florida, municipality of Camagüey, in coordination with the complex agroindustrial rice field of Vertientes.

As part of this agreements, integral of different rural cooperatives of Florida assume the production of important volumes of rice that this year should overcome the 160 thousand quintals, with the projection of duplicating that total in successive stages, feasible result of reaching thanks to the attention that give the harvesters to the cultivation.

The Ministry of the Agriculture, through the agroindustrial complex, guarantees to the rice fields a technological package that includes the seed, the petroleum for the seed and the gathering, as well as the molinade capacity required in the facilities, and prices of purchase attractiveness.

With relationship to the rural sector of Florida can be affirmed that already in these moments it is one of those that contributes in positive way to that the country reduces the imports of this food, what stimulates the productions that are obtained in the rice fields of the south of the municipality.