Rain absence commits cane seed in Camagüey

When the cane seed charges intensity in the county of Camagüey, the germination of the seeds is very committed due to the absence of rains that propitiate the bud of the plants.

The termination of the sugar harvest allows that a bigger quantity of workers sinks to the task, besides teams for the preparation of the land, and in the last days the average overcomes the 100 hectares.

However, the farmers look concerned the brotation lack in the surfaces planted from the second dozen of May, which have not been benefitted by the precipitations.

We wait rains in these days to have security with the sowed fields, said to the AIN Ramón Campanioni, of the direction of cane of the Sugar Managerial Group (GEA) Camagüey.

From January the territory watered seeds in three thousand 273 hectares that means a slight backwardness in connection with that planned up to now, according to the room of control of the GEA, and of this surface some 500 were planted in the four initial months of the year in lands with irrigable.

But the fields from ends of April in unirrigated land areas have been affected in more or smaller measure by the dry station.

Campanioni pointed out that the work is carried out with seeds punished by the drought, that which indicates that they don't have the good quality, because many of the fields dedicated to the production of seeds were very damaged for hurricanes of 2008.

Although the situation is complex, Camagüey has advance in the earth preparation, so much in the one furrowed for the immediate plantation as in the breaking new ground for that of the second semester.

In the year the county should achieve 13 thousand 479 hectares, inferior in more than thousand to that gotten in 2009. (Lucilo Tejera Díaz)