Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Florida, Camagüey, Feb 6.- The peasant Eduardo Wiliam Leyva Batista, from the AmparoCarriera Montes Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS, for its acronym in Spanish) in the municipality of Florida, stands as an example of what is demanded today on a farm to face limitations, advance in productive diversification, and maintain the social contribution by the farmers of the territory.
Known as El Pastor in his area of action, Wiliam Leyva and his family cultivate just over a "caballería" (approx. 33 acres) of land where they promote milk and beef production, foster fruit tree cultivation, work to incorporate apiculture, sustain a carpentry workshop, and have a future project to add biogas production for domestic energy use.
On his farm, El Maná, located a few kilometers from the city of Florida, this man of affable character and willingness to help others effectively employs science and innovation to improve his comprehensive results. This includes the use of rational Voisin grazing with electrified fences, solar energy for heating water for personal hygiene, and novel methods in cattle reproduction.
With 36 head in his cattle herd, the Florida peasant Eduardo Wiliam Leyva Batista, from the AmparoCarriera Montes CCS, overfulfilled his January milk plan, contributed a number of Siboney breed specimens for genetic improvement on other farms in the territory, and, due to his productive efficiency, obtained the right to legal slaughter of large cattle in 2025.
Among the growth aspirations of this producer from the Vanguard Movement within the ANAP sector in Florida is also expanding his work area by requesting idle lands bordering his farmstead, with the aim of increasing cultivation of coconuts, avocados, mangoes, plantains, and guavas. (Text and photo: Pedro Pablo Sáez Herrera/Radio Florida)
