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Vice President of the Republic recognizes progress in self-sufficiency program
The overcompliance with the planting plan of the recently concluded spring campaign was recognized today, in this city, as a plausible achievement of the Guantanamo people in the midst of the rigor of the pandemic, by the member of the Political Bureau and Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa.
Together with the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Rafael Pérez Fernández, and Emilio Matos Mosqueda, top political and government leaders in Guantánamo, Valdés Mesa analyzed the march of food sovereignty, in particular of the municipal self-supply programs, as well as well as the nutritional education of the population and other aspects. Valdés Mesa learned how the 63 measures of the agricultural sector are fulfilled to achieve the increase in food levels, the results of the recently concluded spring campaign, which includes a planting plan of 19,298 hectares (ha), at the close August ended with 20,734 ha planted. Meats were fulfilled at 102 percent, vegetables at 106, grains at 116 and fruits at 108, still insufficient to satisfy the population's demand, reflects the report rendered by the delegate of Agriculture Dionis San Loys. The Cuban vice president held a dialogue with the municipal mayors on the exploitation of idle lands, the increase in livestock modules, the pig program, crop yields, based on the water deficit in several productive poles, and the improvement of the contracting and marketing mechanisms. In the fulfillment of the spring campaign (from March to August), described as decisive by Valdés Mesa "because at that stage 70 percent of the planting of the year is guaranteed," Baracoa stood out, where a per capita was also delivered in the period, amounting to 27.36 pounds of agricultural products, and more than 30 in July and August. Norge Rodríguez Delgado, Mayor of the second largest municipality in the province, in an aside with the ACN, specified that the period under analysis was positive for vegetables and grains in the town, as 24 rustic houses for cultivation were recovered or rebuilt. Likewise, four community organoponics were inaugurated in cardinal points of the northeastern demarcation: Mabujabo, Jobo Dulce, Toa and Paso de Cuba. The Cuban vice president, who in his speeches underlined the importance of increasing cassava production, as an alternative to importing corn flour and wheat, recognized the results of the expansion of this tuber in the province, whose planting in spring exceeded the planned with two thousand 588 hectares, as well as their stocks.
