Recovery of fertile lands, a concern for authorities in Holguín
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Increasing agricultural production to guarantee food for the people is one of the main objectives of the province, with this purpose Ernesto Santiesteban Velázquez, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Holguín, visited the Magueyal Productive Pole in the municipality of Cacocum to check its status and learn the strategy for its recovery.
This agricultural area, with more than 120 arable hectares and a production capacity of more than 350 thousand quintals of root vegetables, is one of the main sources of food production for the municipality of Cacocum, which is why the need to work there.
The officials exchanged with the directors of the UEB Integral Agropecuaria Cacocum to propose the strategy for the recovery of more than 120 fertile hectares currently abandoned. The challenges, resources, alliances, calls and workforce were evaluated to initiate the recovery actions.
During his tour of the area, the first secretary of the Party visited buffalo farms, belonging to this UEB, dedicated to the genetic breeding of buffaloes and milk production, where he checked the lack of technical control of the livestock mass in addition to the high efficiency of this breed in milk and meat production.
The Magueyal Productive Pole was abandoned more than a year ago, due to the lack of resources and the impossibility of the UEB Integral Agropecuaria Cacocum to acquire bank loans for investment in agriculture.
Santiesteban was also interested in the seven reservoirs of the productive area, which are abandoned, wasting infrastructure suitable for the cultivation of fingerlings. “We have to produce food for the people with the endogenous resources of the territory,” he said.
Accompanied by the highest authorities of the territory, the First Secretary came to this place after raising the demand of young people to rescue this productive area in the XII Congress of the Union of Young Communists, where he declared: “each municipality should have a productive center that guarantees the food of its people and also trades them for the capital city.”
