Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Camagüey, Feb 24 - In a complex scenario for the Cuban economy due to the energy blockade imposed by the United States government, the province's Urban, Suburban and Family Agriculture Program is implementing strategies to maintain the vitality of its productions during the current crisis period.
Yaima Esquivel Andujar, head of the movement in the territory, explained that among the actions to be developed are focusing the organization on food production and services based on the potential of each farmer, collectively or individually, whether in obtaining seeds, agroecological pest management and the production of organic fertilizers through all possible means.
Likewise, the intention is that in all electoral districts there will be a productive modality to guarantee the supply of fresh vegetables and condiments, in addition to expanding the production of priority crops such as cassava, sweet potato and plantain.
Esquivel Andujar highlighted that in the current calendar, urban agriculture plans to consolidate the work of integrated farms in the green belt of the city of Camagüey and in each of the province's municipalities, strengthen the movement of yards and plots, and meet the deliveries in volume and assortment demanded by the Program of Natural and Traditional Medicine in the territory.
Urban agriculture in the Camagüey’s region has a total area of more than one thousand hectares for the production of fresh vegetables and condiments, which includes organoponics, semi-protected crops, intensive orchards, technified plots and rustic cultivation houses; in addition to the diversification of agroecological productions in around six thousand 295 farms, of which just over four thousand are already ready and in development. (Text and photos: Gleibis Gómez Durvas/Radio Cadena Agramonte)
