13th ANAP Congress begins in Cuba
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The 13th Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) begins today in Cuba, focused on socializing and designing strategies aimed at strengthening food sovereignty.
The event, which will be held until Saturday, May 17, at the Convention Palace in Havana, welcomes more than 400 participants and 100 guests.
According to ANAP's national president, Félix Duarte, all categories of members of the organization will be represented in the meeting, including usufructuaries, owners, tenants and peasant families.
In addition, presidents of Agricultural Production Cooperatives, Credit and Service Cooperatives, as well as the organization's executives at all levels, will also attend the event.
Duarte explained to the media that the opening day will include three working commissions aimed at analyzing the structural strengthening of ANAP, its political work, with emphasis on the work with the youth of the sector; while the Economic Commission will address the productive and economic issues essential to the peasantry.
He noted that on May 17, Cuban Farmers' Day, which commemorates the signing of the First Agrarian Reform Law, the central report of the event will be discussed and approved in a plenary session.
ANAP's small producers and cooperative members cover 45 percent of Cuba's arable land; however, they generate 70 to 80 percent of the production that has an impact on the Cuban economy and on the population's food supply. (Source: Prensa Latina)
