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In "El Ramón" more production is required
A UBPC from Santiago that advances in the Coffee Development Program and food production
Among the Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPC) coffee growing in the province of Santiago de Cuba, the largest producer of the grain in the country, is known as "El Ramón", located in the mountainous relief that includes part of the Sierra Maestra in the leading and outstanding municipality within the Coffee Development Program planned until 2030. There, in the Ramón de las Yaguas Popular Council (CP), that productive structure, these days is engaged in the preparations for the 2021 coffee harvest with the productive commitment to continue growing in quality and quantity, despite the serious limitations that It imposes the strict economic blockade against Cuba and the negative incidents of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The intense daily work identifies the group of workers, who, rigorously complying with the sanitary protocols, invade the plantations very early to carry out the decisive cultural attentions, among these, the cleaning, deshije, pruning, fertilization, as well as the sowing and replanting and the demanding application of science and technology. Although 2019 marked a productive take-off, with the completion of more than 12,000 coffee cans collected, it is good to point out that in 2021 it continued to set required management models with the implementation of the Ordering Task that demanded the active participation of its most of 100 partners linked to the specific tasks of increasing agricultural yields and food production. It should be noted that the promotion and production of coffee, the main corporate purpose of the UBPC, has made considerable progress and places the group among the most prominent of its kind in Santiago. The results in the collection of the cherry tree currently influence the elevation of the level and quality of life of its cooperative members, family members and residents of the mountain community. The close working relationship between the factors directly influence the positive economic and social results of the UBPC, founded 25 years ago, where the cultivation of cocoa, meats, fruits and livestock is also developed with the aim of fulfilling contracts with the State and pay tribute to the self-sufficiency of the associates and the 3,700 inhabitants of the CP of Ramón de las Yaguas. The commitment of "El Ramón" is to continue complying under any circumstances, hence, in the face of the current situation of the intensification of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States government against Cuba and the Covid-19 Pandemic, they attend to the application of traditional alternatives such as the use of mule lines to transport the collected coffee and agricultural products harvested in the hills, and to animal traction for the preparation of the land. Today, the men and women of this group are not an exception in the effort to assume the difficult initial moments of the emergence of these productive structures in 1993, which emerged as an option to alleviate the difficult situation of agriculture in Cuba during the Special Period; Hence, in "El Ramón" it is demanded and demanded at all times for a greater production.
