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Productive Poles seek to maximize efficiency in food production

The Agricultural and Forestry Productive Poles, which were approved by law less than a week ago, will be distinguished by the articulation of different economic actors, the use of innovation and strategies to reduce imports, with the clear purpose of producing as much food as possible with high added value.

Productive Poles seek to maximize efficiency in food production
09 Sep 2021

Maury Echevarría Bermúdez, deputy minister of MINAG, reported today in the radio-television program Mesa Redonda that in this new space, of which 64 are expected to be made official, the economic actors of a certain geographical area will be coordinated and articulated in a conscious, voluntary and orderly manner, in function of achieving the integral management of agroindustrial value chains. The large productions that derive from them will go to large cities (Havana and provincial capitals), to the state commission, the supply of tourism and the food industry, mainly. Parallel to the development of the Productive Poles, the Ministry of Agriculture works to promote local agri-food systems for the self-sufficiency of the municipalities. This does not indicate that once the Pole complies with its plan, the food cannot be sent to the territories, on the contrary, that support is contemplated, the vice minister said. Regarding the integration of management models in this system, he reported that they can be made up of companies, cooperatives, producers, self-employed workers, science, technology and other entities. innovation and universities. When we talk about promoting innovative processes, we are referring to the development of seeds, bioproducts and the conscious application and massive introduction of technology, he said. The Poles have a main line of production, but -based on the principle of diversification- they must promote others, in addition to taking into account territoriality, by sharing physical space and compact geographic. Regarding the operation, the vice-president said that they are managed from productive chains and services that are carried out through contracting between the economic actors that intervene in their development. The commercialization of agricultural and forestry products, report economic and social benefits, introduce modern technologies such as precision agriculture and be a source of secure employment for the population of the region it covers; stand out among the functions that the Poles will have. Echevarría Bermúdez explained that among the agricultural and forestry productions in which they can specialize, various crops stand out; rice cookers; tobacco growers; sugar bowls; citrus; coffee growers; cocoa trees; of natural fibers; poultry; ranchers; pigs; loggers; fruit trees; grains, and other agricultural and forestry productions. The Official Gazette of the Republic recently published Resolution 384/2021 that approved the creation of the Agricultural and Forest Productive Poles.


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