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Holguín advances in urban agriculture program

With the construction of 34 new organoponics for the production of vegetables in communities where this type of cultivation does not exist, the province of Holguín advances in urban agriculture projects, as part of the national food sovereignty program, aimed at increasing agricultural production.

Holguín advances in urban agriculture program
04 Jan 2022

These spaces will allow to increase the harvests of these lines of great demand by the population by more than 40 tons, which will expand the purchase options in the population settlements, stressed Yusmila Rodríguez, who will work in the provincial delegation of the sector. She pointed out that 32 rustic farming houses are also being built in the eastern territory, distributed in the 14 municipalities, with the aim of promoting agroecological practices, contributing to raising high yields and achieving crop sustainability. The province, she explained, has more than 105,000 flowerbeds in the form of organoponics, intensive orchards and semi-protected crops, areas to which there is also a surface similar to this of patios and plots also linked to urban and suburban agriculture At the end of this year and through this variant of crops, more than 62 thousand tons of vegetables and fresh condiments were produced in the Holguin territory for consumption in social institutions, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, agricultural markets and points of sale. of the productive units. This program has been developed as an organized system since 1997 and has made it possible to triple the consumption of vegetables and extend it to cities, towns and small hamlets, with the delivery of state lands in usufruct, among other mechanisms, reports the Ecured encyclopedia. The publication states that it covers not only plant species, but also livestock farming, aquaculture and the production of biofertilizers from worm humus, using organic practices that do not pollute the environment, the resources of each territory and direct marketing. with the consumer.


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