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The Ministry of Agriculture focuses its attention and hopes on the productive poles
Today the Ministry of Agriculture focuses its attention and hopes on agricultural and forestry productive poles, aimed at national balances, to supply large cities, the food industry and tourism, to substitute imports and export; although it also does not neglect local food systems, at the municipality level.
One can pay tribute to the other, stated in the Informative Roundtable Maury Hechevarría Bermúdez, vice minister of that organization, although he dedicated his appearance to the first, not without first clarifying that it is about the conscious and orderly coordination and articulation of the economic actors in the same geographic space, to achieve greater integration of the food value chain. Also read: The integration of all economic actors should be the main achievement of the productive poles (+ Video) Productive Poles seek to maximize efficiency in food production The figure goes through 64 poles already created in the country, among which there are 15 of various crops, four rice and grains, five of coffee, cocoa and coconut; 13 ranchers, three fruit farmers, eight loggers and one beekeeper, but although each one is specialized in these or other lines, they are called to also produce milk, meat, meats, etc., for the sake of diversification and self-consumption. Minag managers and specialists are very hopeful in the potential of these systems, since they promote the economic and social development of communities and municipalities, the return of monetary income for new investments, and they have the power to do foreign trade. At the same time, they facilitate chaining, concentrate resources in the most productive places, efficiently use science, innovation and technology, generalize scientific results, promote local agriculture, and by having agroindustries in their structures, they close productive cycles. . In the television radio space, the examples of the citrus and fruit companies Victoria de Girón, in the Matanzas municipality of Jagüey Grande; La Cuba, in Ceballos, Ciego de Ávila, and Ceiba, in Artemisa, which supplies the capital, which, among others, show encouraging results even in the delivery of food and vegetables. According to Frank Castañeda Santalla, director of Osde Agrícola, they want the poles to also have a seed production and marketing unit, another science and innovation unit, and become entities that export goods and services, in addition to being linked to universities and scientific centers. But at the same time they are controlled and required to achieve an efficient use of the land fund, the growth of the areas under irrigation, high yields per hectare, greater rotation of crops, especially those of short cycle, and reach a level of financing for the purchase of inputs, as explained in the Informative Roundtable by Miguel Rosales Román, director of Agriculture in that organization.
