Modern Technology Benefits Agriculture in Holguin

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Photos: Carlos RafaelThe modernization of technological equipment in the agricultural area "La Yuraguana", in an effort of the Cuban State to improve the agricultural work, will contribute to increase food production and resolve the difficulties related to the lack of work force for these tasks.
 
As part of the Rural Cooperative Development Project (PRODECOR) for the eastern region of the Caribbean country, the new sowing machines, harvesters and modern technology fertilizers will benefit some 2, 168 hectares of various crops.

"This project has not only contributed with machines, but also with fertilizer and irrigation systems. I'm really satisfied, as we are very few workers here and see how hard we need to work to achieve production” said Virgilio Díaz Velázquez, usufructuary of the Cooperativa de Creditos y Servicios (CCS), in whose fields, in addition to corn, sweet potatoes, beans and tobacco are also cultivated.
 
In the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC) Diosdado Samón, also prevails a sense of satisfaction among its workers, who increase efforts to contribute the Cuban economy and prevent the purchase of products that lands can produce.
The mechanized planting allowed here, just four days into the spring campaign, to have 40 percent of the land dedicated to grains planted.
 
José Pedro Batista, agricultural worker, explained that before the arrival of the machines, it was necessary to bring the family and neighbors to the countryside due to the lack of work force. "Not long ago," he says, "fertilization involved 20 or 30 men, with bags on their shoulders and fertilizer was scattered with their hands. With the new machine, only 3 or 4 workers are required, as it does almost everything.
 
PRODECOR, is sponsored by the UN International Development Fund and is basically intended to provide new equipment and supplies for agricultural work. It began to be implemented in 2014 by the Ministry of Agriculture, with the objective of promoting the production of food, mainly of grains, as well as rural development in 18 municipalities of Las Tunas, Holguín, Granma and Santiago de Cuba.

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