Camagüey seed of several cultivations undertakes

Camagüey. The farmers of the county of Camagüey calculate their hopes of increasing the production and viands selection, vegetables, grains and fruit-bearing in the seed campaign that have just begun.

Until ends of February 2011 the peasants hope to plant near 16 thousand 600 hectares, more than thousand above the registration in similar previous stage, informed the AIN the delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture (MINAG).

An important weight in the program runs in charge of the area of Camalote, in the northeast of the territory, important seat of cooperative of affiliated peasants to the National Association of Small Farmers.
In accordance with the calculations, in that part of Camagüey the crop will be of 46 thousand 725 tons (around a million quintals), taking advantage of the improvements in the irrigation for investments, repair and maintenance of channels.

Other places of relevance are the surroundings of the city of Camagüey, the valley of Cubitas, to the north, and in areas of Santa Cruz of the South.

Darío Batista, subdelegate of the MINAG, said to the AIN that the seed begins under very favorable conditions of humidity in the floors for frequent rains in the last weeks.

Of reaching the predicted results, with that plantation will make sure 70 percent of the foods of the agriculture that the residents of the county should consume next year, that is to say unite 96 thousand tons.

Aida Díaz, of the direction in the territory of the National Association of Small Farmers, expressed the AIN that the peasants use in a high grade the use of oxen in the preparation of the earth.

Mainly in the properties of the suburban agriculture the use of the animal traction is decisive, she manifested.

The sector of the private producers and cooperativized seed of the 60 to 65 percent of the surface in the current campaign.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz )