The planting of grains, vegetables, fruits and citrus fruits, keeps occupied more than 30,200 hectares that represent 57 percent of the areas dedicated to various crops in the province of Holguín.
Since September 11, the province of Holguin is immersed in the coffee harvest, which involves 63 productive forms and about 5,000 workers from the eastern Cuban territory.
Hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, canals and bridges make up the water transfer projects underway in the country. On completion, they will benefit some 400,000 hectares of land.
The Sierra de Nipe in the province of Holguin is considered by many botanists as the second most important center of evolution of Cuban flora, which treasures more than 1,300 plant species, of which 740 are endemic and 88 are exclusive to this eastern mountainous region.
The special education system in the province of Holguin registers this school year more than three thousand children with visual, physical-motor and hearing disabilities, as part of the sector's equal opportunities strategy.