Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, May 16 – The XIII Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) will begin today in Havana, focusing on socializing and developing strategies aimed at strengthening food sovereignty.
The event, which will last until tomorrow at the Convention Palace, welcomes more than 400 participants and 100 guests.
According to the national president of ANAP, Félix Duarte, all categories of associates in the organization will be represented: usufructuaries, owners, tenants, and farming families.
In addition, presidents of Agricultural Production Cooperatives, Credit and Service Cooperatives, as well as executives of the organization at all levels will attend.
Duarte explained to the press that on this opening day, three working commissions will be held to analyze the structural strengthening of ANAP and its political work, with special emphasis on working with young people in the sector; and the Economic Commission will address essential productive and economic issues for the peasantry.
Likewise, this Friday, the organization's new statutes are expected to be approved and the National Committee elected.
He explained that on May 17, Peasant Day, which commemorates the signing of the First Agrarian Reform Law, the main report of the event will be discussed and approved in a plenary session.
The small producers and cooperative members of ANAP manage 45 percent of Cuba's arable land; however, they generate 70 to 80 percent of the production that impacts the Cuban economy and directly the population's nutrition. (Text and photo: PL)
