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Link science to local production and development
Much and varied is the scientific potential available to the country's provinces and many innovation and technology transfer projects that exist. This is also the case in Guantánamo, a territory with a wide portfolio of research that seeks to increase food production and the endogenous local development of municipalities.
In Guantánamo, a province with more than 75.5 percent of its territory covered by mountains, climatic characteristics that go from the rainiest zone to the one with less rainfall in Cuba, and many of its soils marked by salinity; the purpose of reaching higher levels of food and quality of life of the population will always go through linking the existing scientific potential to the productive units and producers. With the presence of several research centers, and qualified personnel, greater integration is required between the academy and its scientific community, companies and local governments that make it possible to carry out projects that are measurable with indicators that illustrate results of greater food production and development. Main axis pursued by the Food with more Science and Food Sovereignty and Nutrition Education programs, checked in a recent visit to the province by Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, who toured agricultural areas and productive entities in Baracoa, visited the central Argeo Martínez and exchanged with researchers and executives from the University of Guantánamo, CITMA, Agriculture and other organizations. Tapia Fonseca's journey through Baracoa included the Cane coffee and cocoa profit center, and the Duaba coconut nurseries and the cocoa nursery using the tubete technique, in the Mabujabo area, groups where he exchanged with the workers and interested for their salaries, from the application of the Ordering Task in the Agriculture sector. In each of these places, he valued the need to promote biotechnology and a true agricultural extension that would facilitate knowledge to producers and materialize in the increase of development programs for coffee, cocoa and coconut. Strategic task, since at present the levels of cocoa and coconut in Baracoa, and the plantations under development, do not meet the demands of the new and modern chocolate factories and the coconut oil extraction factories planned to start up in the future. year, facilities also visited by the deputy prime minister. A sugarcane squad and the central Argeo Martínez were also part of the tour, in which he was accompanied by the highest authorities of the Party and the Government of the province. In the only industry that Guantánamo has to produce sugar, Tapia Fonseca was interested in the harvest, and the causes that cause its unstable operation, the effects of mill breakdowns, and the need to increase yields. At the end of his visit, he exchanged with part of the Guantanamo scientific community, professors from the house of higher studies of the territory, producers and entrepreneurs, where he was informed of the contribution of the University of Guantánamo to the production of food with more science and to the food sovereignty plan and nutrition education. He learned about the work carried out with a productive chain approach to increase food levels in the four areas of prospective development of the province (Baracoa and the valleys of Caujerí, Guantánamo and San Rafael-Giralt), as well as the linking the Academy and CITMA with the productive sectors and companies.
