Koica project will benefit Holguín farmers
- Written by Yanela Ruiz González
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Promoting the production of vegetables, fruits and root vegetables is the main goal of producers from the municipality of Urbano Noris involved in the Project ¡Actúa diferente!, supported by the Korean development agency Koica, through the World Food Program in Cuba, PMA.
In this sense, training was recently carried out on the use, handling and maintenance of the new equipment received, motorcycle backpacks and motocultivators, as well as protection means, among other tools provided by the program for its fulfillment.
The activity was carried out by Ruber Peña, UEICA extension agent and representative of the project in this municipality, with the participation of the Municipal University Center (CUM)..
According to Peña, these actions respond to the objectives of the project, to which they were inserted since 2013, a period in which they dedicated their attention to promoting bean production.
"At this time we are carrying out actions to extend other crops, aimed at meeting the demands of the social protection network, which in "Urbano Noris" includes three Family Care Systems (SAF), seven educational institutions, including a day care center, special school and semi-boarding school, as well as the maternity ward of the municipal hospital,” he added.
This project benefits five productive forms and 12 producers, who through agreement and negotiation assumed the commitment to supply fresh agricultural products to the institutions of the social protection network.
In addition to the producers, the Project also benefit other service-providing institutions that intervene in the value chain of vegetable production, such as the Agricultural Extension, Research and Training Unit (Ueica), the municipality's university center, which contributes with training and the transfer of technology in the training and improvement of human resources, the UEB Agricultural and the Center for Reproduction of Entomophages and Entomopathogens, CREE, to obtain biological means for pest control.
“To date we have also received shovels, wheelbarrows, machetes and training materials,” the extension agent stressed.
The Koica project, as it is known, is present in five municipalities in eastern Cuba: “Niceto Pérez”, Guamá, Jiguaní, Manatí and “Urbano Noris”, belonging to the provinces of Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Las Tunas and Holguín, respectively.
