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Cuban vice president exchanged with agricultural producers from Cienfuegos
The vice president of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, held a meeting in the province of Cienfuegos with producers and authorities of the territory, with the purpose of evaluating the implementation of the 63 measures approved in the country to promote agriculture.
Valdés Mesa called for speeding up the application of these new provisions to boost the sector, strategic in the Cuban economy and impacted by the lack of inputs, as a result of the intensification of the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba. The Cuban vice president also referred to the need to produce more food in the current context, also complex due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and urged producers to exceed the number of hectares sown in the current spring campaign. Workers from the southern countryside presented experiences of the new marketing policy, through direct sales from various forms of production to agricultural markets in communities and the capital city. The Cuban vice president also called for the efficient preparation of the cold campaign, a call also made by the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz. "Every organizational detail must be anticipated from now on, having the producers, the seedbeds, the positions well prepared, to avoid delay between the end of the spring sowing on August 31 and the beginning of the cold season on September 1", Monteagudo Ruiz said. Similarly, the meeting was chaired by the member of the Party's Central Committee and its first secretary in Cienfuegos, Maridé Fernández López; Ydael Pérez Brito, Minister of Agriculture, and Rafael Santiesteban Pozo, President of the National Association of Small Farmers.
