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Cuba extends coffee production to the plain

Cuba needs to lower coffee production to the plain to take advantage of the potential that the workforce and some soils represent, in order to increase crops, especially those that can be used for national consumption.

Cuba extends coffee production to the plain
09 Aug 2021

The migration of the mountaineers to towns and cities has created a deficit of arms to tend to the Arabica coffee plantations - a line traditionally recognized in the international market - and as a consequence, a reduction in the harvests, which are abysmally far from the campaigns. from the early 60s of the last century. On the basis of the Cuba-Vietnam Collaboration Project, a technology has been established for the extension of coffee to the plain, which has as its primary element the genetic material brought from the Asian country, which is promoted in seed farms in the eastern municipalities of the Third Front. , Guisa and Buey Arriba, and is distributed to the provinces involved in the program. A monitoring carried out prior to the implementation of the program, showed that in the plains there are about 400 hectares cultivated with coffee without meeting technical requirements, whose destination is family self-sufficiency, which evidenced the feasibility of its extension, maximum when it will be supported by technologies, producer training and science advice. Since 2017, we have been working on this Coffee Program in the Llano, led by the Agroforestry Business Group, which has made agroforestry companies responsible for the care of producers and the creation of technical and organizational conditions that allow their development. Since then, 1,200 hectares have been planted (another 700 will be incorporated this year) with the aim of reaching 7,163 hectares in 2030, and collecting more than 4,000 tons per year. Nine specialized production centers have been established in the country, with the largest areas in Matanzas, Villa Clara and Mayabeque; According to Elexis Legrá Calderín, director of Coffee, Cacao and Coconut of the Agroforestal Group, the plantations will be interspersed with fruit trees, and where it is not possible, they will plant bananas with the dual purpose of taking advantage of it as shade and food.


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