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Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia visits economic impact centers in Guantánamo
The deputy prime minister spoke with producers about the application of the 63 agricultural measures and with fishermen, to find out what limits or prevents them from achieving greater catches to guarantee the sale of proteins to the population.
To measure the health and projections of important economic and productive centers in Guantánamo, the Cuban Deputy Prime Minister, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, and a government delegation visit the easternmost province of Cuba from this Monday, as part of the monitoring and control of the measures. designed to energize the agricultural and business sectors. In his eagerness to know the balance of the results after the hard blow of the pandemic, Tapia Fonseca was in Baracoa where he spoke with specialists from the Baracoa Agroforestry Station, an institution that links cocoa production with science. There he became interested in the functioning of the Germplasm Bank, the work of the technicians and the link with the peasantry. During his stay in La Primada he verified the status of the Chocolate Factory, ready to start in just over 100 days, and went to the Coconut Factory, which, given the effects of the cyclone on coconut trees, remains inactive, so he called think of alternatives to make use of that technology. The deputy prime minister spoke with producers about the application of the 63 agricultural measures and with fishermen, to find out what limits or prevents them from achieving greater catches to guarantee the sale of proteins to the population. Tapia Fonseca was also in Imías, in the Aguada de la Palma area to exchange with the Pérez family, peasant sheep-goat breeders, who have succeeded in multiplying the head of cattle in the most intricate places and will now be inserted in the horse breeding. As he passed through San Antonio del Sur, the leader accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Ydael Jesús Pérez Brito, and the Minister of the Food Industry, Manuel Santiago Sobrino Martínez, went to the Valle de Caujerí canning factory, responsible for processing some 7,000 tons of food. At the moment the installation is in the process of being maintained with a view to the January 2022 campaign, but it is called to continue diversifying and giving greater added value to its productions, a goal that is being worked on even for the MLC market. In Carrera Larga, a town in El Salvador, the Minister of Internal Trade, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, was present to check the progress as part of the program to revive community warehouses. There, 11 will be the premises that will be recovered, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the plain and the mountains. Regarding the implementation of the courier service, especially for vulnerable cases and reducing annoying crowds, the minister inquired, who was also concerned about the quality of the provision of services, the stability of the products of the basic basket and the constructive state of the local gastronomic units, which - he insisted - must manage more offers from elaborations with endogenous resources, contracted to the peasants of the area. Díaz Velázquez insisted on advancing in the implementation of new technologies in Commerce facilities, for online promotion and sales, as well as electronic payment that favors accounting and even allows wineries to serve as a sort of cashier to the people as part of the new options offered by the Bank for hard-to-reach communities. The ministerial delegation will continue its path through Guantánamo in the Argeo Martínez Central, promoting frank dialogue with the workers and the people in general, as a measure of how much has been done and remains to be done. The journey that began in Villa Clara will continue this Wednesday towards Granma and then Holguín, as part of the country's will to accompany each step on the way to perfecting the social economic model.
