Swinish development in Vertientes strengthens alimentary Program

Camagüey - The swinish development in the peasant cooperative sector and of the municipality of Vertientes, in the county of Camagüey, can be exemplified through the experience and the love to work Rolando Pacheco, one of the best breeders in pigs of the Cooperative Juan Manuel Márquez, located not much more than 26 kilometers of the provincial head.

With more than 25 years in the agricultural chores, Pacheco works in his property “The Marías”, of two extension chivalries (26,84 hectares), where the several cultivations, the cane and the corn are fomented, to obtain 30 percent of the supplements that complete the system of feeding of the pigs, which are raised in a built ship with family effort, with capacity for 80 animals.

Also supported by his family this producer is very efficient in the tomato obtaining, when surpassing the 400 quintals of the vegetable surrendered to the state in each crop.

With traditional methods of breeding, in each agreement stage with the State feeds 80 pigs - in a period of four months -, with some seven tons of meat of total production, what highlights the potentialities of this project for the swinish development in Cuba.

Pacheco manifested that the foods for his herd are elaborated handmadely in his property, as long as the medications - when are necessary - he obtains them in the swinish Company of Camagüey.

The commitment of to continue linked to the agricultural works represents for the rural Rolando Pacheco the opportunity to support the alimentary program and the substitution of imports, the workers' of the cooperative sector fundamental objectives in the means south of Camagüey. (Fernando Capote Taño).