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The coffee harvest is over and the 2022 harvest is ready in Santiago de Cuba
By fulfilling the delivery of more than 1,400 tons (t) of coffee in the municipality of the Third Front, the province of Santiago de Cuba finished the 2021 harvest and is preparing for the current year with the challenge of increasing the quality and exports of the grain
More than 4,400 tons represented a growth that responded to what was established in the Coffee Development Program that progresses in the eight mountainous massifs of the territory, putting into practice local alternatives and a lot of effort for the impact on resources and people of the maintained Covid -19. Carlos Sánchez Mora, director of the Agroforestry company of the Third Front, the largest coffee producer in Cuba, told the Cuban News Agency today that they continue to collect 200 tons above the plan, completed on January 9, due to the contribution of the mountain people, producers, peasants and their families. At the same time, the agrotechnical workshops are being developed in the base structures that give birth to the new campaign, which must be higher to provide 1,528 tons of grain, if the flowering of the coffee trees and the weather conditions are taken into account so far, Sánchez clarified. . Likewise, they carry out a strong material assurance in the first months of 2022, security measures to avoid deviations, contracting with producers that was superior and the organizing role of the Provincial and Municipal Harvest Commission. Municipal agroforestry companies conclude agrotechnical exchanges, revive more than 70 centers for pulping and selection of coffee and activate management positions for greater organization, discipline and participation, said Wilmer Guevara, delegate of Agriculture in the territory. He highlighted, in the town of the Second Front, advances in the application of different technologies to produce seedlings in tubes, cuttings, grafts, Vietnamese models, soil conservation polygons, of which seven work, and three school structures for training in good farming practices. Other actions that promote coffee recovery are the renovation of old plantations and sealing the recovered ones in many producers who reconsidered this strategy between 2022 and 2023, concluded Guevara. (Maria Antonia Medina Tellez)
