Cuban Vice President tours productive areas in Holguín
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Salvador Valdés Mesa, vice president of the Republic of Cuba, visited the productive areas of the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC) Roberto Escudero, in the municipality of Báguanos, Holguín, as part of his working visit to this eastern Cuban province.
Accompanied by Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez, president of the Provincial Defense Council and Julio César Estupiñán Rodríguez, vice president of this body in the territory, Valdés Mesa insisted on the importance of strengthening the development of municipalities with endogenous resources.
He said that it is vital to work with new concepts in sugarcane production and diversify crops since the sugarcane planting is not enough to live and it is necessary to use the workforce efficiently with other objectives during the closing stage of sugarcane activities.
This UBPC has 1,115 hectares dedicated to sugarcane and more than 400 for other crops; it currently has 163 hectares under drip irrigation, which exceed 56 tons per hectare and it is projected to exceed these yields when another 281 are put under irrigation for which complementary tests are already being carried out.
"This has been a difficult year, few material and financial resources, so we cannot afford to fail in the estimates, neglect the sprouts, to affect, to the least possible extent, the delivery to the industry, because failure to comply with the harvest represents also affecting the production of derivatives, " said Valdés Mesa.
This productive area has 1,700 hectares of total land with 203 cooperative members. It currently has five central Pivot machines for irrigation and works for a Local Development Program in order to favor living conditions from the area and reduce the exodus of the population.
The member of the Political Bureau also toured the areas of Ramón Dos, in the municipality of Cueto, where he checked the use for sprinkler irrigation of the water from the Transfer, which benefits areas of the Guatemala Company, planted with bananas.
