Will electrify irrigable in rice cooperative of Camagüey

Vertientes, Camagüey, 24 Sep -The electrification of the irrigable in two rice cooperatives of this area of the county of Camagüey, will assure the crop of the grain in some 800 hectares in two seed campaigns.

Idelino Álvarez, director of the Agroindustrial Rice Complex Route Invasora, informed that the investment will be of about 32 thousand dollars and it will benefit to the Cooperatives of Credits and Services Manuel Ascunce Domenech and Algérico Lara.

He added that the Electric Basic Organization of the territory has the projects to attack immediately the one spread of lines and the tranformers assembly.

The two entities are integrated to the movement of high producers of the food that takes ahead the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP).

Miguel Arturo Durán, president of the “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”, said to the AIN that the investment will facilitate to use in the watering the underground water of 10 or 12 new wells or that are already used but with a lot of uncertainty and inefficient.

Francisco Fundora, fitosanitary of the “Algérico Lara”, explained that in his cooperative will be been able to irrigate around 400 hectares and to carry out two seeds every year, in the well-known campaigns as of cold and of spring, with good agricultural yields.

Both units saw limited the plantation this year for the deficit of water from the reservoir Jimaguayú, to the south of the city of Camagüey, with very low practical readiness for the considerable decrease of the level of having filled as a consequence of insufficient precipitations from ends of 2008.(Lucilo Tejera Díaz)