Camagüey contributes with the swinish production to diminish imports

The production of pig meat in the county of Camagüey grew in 2009 around eight percent, that which helped to the national economy to diminish imports.


Sources of the Swinish Company Camagüey, of the Ministry of the Agriculture, affirmed that the increment was superior to the 630 tons, when reporting eight thousand 160 tons marketed with the industry procesator or the retailer market .

Also, all the destinations were completed, as supplying to factories of foods to elaborate sausages directed to the family basket and to give to hotels, restaurants and stores that operate in freely convertible currency.

At this time the pig leg is quoted in the world market to two thousand 210 dollars the ton.

Enrique González, director of the entity, said that the main result was in the established agreements with cooperative of affiliated peasants to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) who achieved figures above the seven thousand tons.

The fruit of the registration is in that production form and the purchase of pigs to matters, in which Camagüey stands out in the country with a monthly average of 340 tons.

In practice since last decade amid the special period of the Cuban economy, the agreements consist in that the state company sells to producing animal cooperativized with a weight from 16 to 20 kilograms, and five months later acquires them with not less than 81 kilograms.

The family of Marcelino Viera and its children are the biggest breeders in the county who marketed with Swinish Camagüey 100 tons of meat in the 2009.

Jorge Viera who took in usufruct 26,8 hectares of lazy lands of an agricultural company in the periphery of this city, he said to the AIN that with the amplification in 2010 the production could ascend to 150 tons, mainly starting from getting in way local food for the pigs in it feeds.

Of maintaining the sustained increase the last three years , Camagüey hopes in the current to reach 10 thousand tons that would be almost thousand on the record of 1989.