Rural of Camagüey sells to the State 50 million liters of milk

Camagüey - The affiliated cattlemen to the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in the county of Camagüey, have marketed 50 million liters of milk with entities of the Alimentary Industry and of the Interior Trade.

With strong growths in the production of this food in the last years, the territory hopes to finish the 2010 with around 65 million liters, estimated Erasmo García, of the agrarian organization.

That quantity would be to some three millions of liters of the planned figure, but in connection with last year it would mean an increment of more than seven million liters.

Six years ago, these cooperativists hardly sent to the State 30 million liters.

The official explained that in the last weeks the level of I milk newspaper lowered due to the excess of humidity in the herdsmen as a consequence of the frequent rains.

The fields are in very bad state so that the flocks can move without limitations in grass search, confirmed Héctor Martínez, president of the cooperative Abel Santamaría, which already has in it a million 200 thousand liters sold to the State.

Adding all the producers, Camagüey dedicated up to now to the Company of Milky Products for its industrial prosecution or to the direct distribution from the dairies to the points of sale retailer more than 65 million liters, informed Humberto Hernández, provincial subdelegate of the Ministry of the Agriculture.

This territory contributes to the Cuban economy around 28 percent of the flowing milk. (Lucilo Tejera Díaz).