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Deputy Prime Minister exchanged with producers and directors from Santiago
Jorge Luis Tapia, Cuban vice prime minister, exchanged today with producers and directors of state companies in the province of Santiago de Cuba, about the development of livestock and compliance with the 63 measures implemented in the country this year to favor the production of food.
The dialogue took place with the presence of the ministers Manuel Sobrino and Ydael Pérez, of the Food Industry and Agriculture, respectively, representatives of state companies that define the feeding of the people, government leaders, the PCC, the agricultural sector and entities that decide the application of the provisions in productive structures. Six months after the implementation of these actions, it was found that those that encourage the production of milk and meat, through new prices of the food that farmers deliver to the industry, have difficulties in procedures and contracting. Non-payments and delays of money to farmers, delays in the creation of magnetic cards and in insurance contracts for production, and failures in the link between managers and the field stand out among the problems raised by producers in the territory. Tapia called for an immediate solution to this problem, with more communication between stakeholders and unity at work. As was known, very few cattle handlers have cards where the money is deposited in freely convertible currency (MLC), the responsibility of the banks that must speed up the process so that they can acquire means and supplies. In this sense, the vice prime minister urged to eliminate intermediaries and increase direct contracts with the meat and dairy industries, which have to be more related to the base, to negotiate, because the concepts have changed and the way of doing and thinking must be transformed. , He said. Likewise, he required the Agriculture system to deliver very soon the requested hectares for the sowing of animal feed among cattle owners and those who dabble in the task; and in that there is too much bureaucracy in the province, which is the last in the country to carry out these exchanges, he argued. In Santiago de Cuba there is a delivery deficit of one million liters of milk, equivalent to 130 tons (t) of powdered feed, which costs more than three thousand dollars per t, just as it is not met in 236 t of meat , and the hiring for 2022 is not going well, the Minister of Food Industry said in his speech. For these reasons, we must stimulate farmers and their work right now, put the extra and be efficient in contracts because the situation is complex, Sobrino explained. The best experiences of a movement of leading producers who provide training and an example of the benefits of the measures that ultimately affect the quality of life and local development of the municipalities were presented, said Yendry Morales, a pig farmer. Also of young entrepreneurs in areas of the Turquino Plan with results in the purchase of inputs and means in MLC as a result of their work, but it was clear that despite these attitudes, more information and links between the state companies with those who generate the resources are necessary. for feeding. In the conclusions, José Ramón Monteagudo, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and first secretary of that political formation in the province, underlined the rigor and discipline in the implementation of the provisions, as a policy decided in the last Congress of the Party and in the economic battle. Monteagudo reaffirmed that it has to be in the shortest possible time and without external presence, because capacity and reserves exist in the territory, where a series of non-compliance of physical productions will be reviewed, seeking more discipline as the only way to honor the 63 measures approved in the country.
