CAMAGÜEY.- Especially in the current times of economic crisis due to COVID-19 and the resurgence of actions by the Trump administration, it is imperative not to neglect the promotion of strategies that lead us down the path of food sovereignty.

In this sense, more than 140 members of the Armando Cardoso Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), from the town of El Caimito, benefited from the Livestock Development Project (PRODEGAN). As reported by Radio Guáimaro on its website, the farmers with the greatest potential were selected according to the conditions created on their farms and the results that qualify them as avant-garde producers.

With the entry of tractors, agricultural implements and tools to this productive base, it is expected to increase yields. The Government Project for Livestock Development, PRODEGAN, financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations (UN), aims to promote the sustainable development of the livestock sector together with the improvement of working conditions and of the quality of life of the men and women of the countryside, expands that radio station.

The people of Minas Gerais also get up every day motivated by the purpose of sustainability and agricultural development: there they aspire to guarantee each inhabitant five kilograms of animal protein and 15 pounds of food, according to the station La Voz del Bayatabo.

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In several visits to that territory, Ariel Santana Santiesteban, first secretary of the Communist Party in the province, has been able to verify the progress of that agricultural sector. In a recent tour of Santana Santiesteban, he verified in the Credit and Services Cooperatives (CCS) 17 de Mayo and Combate de Bonilla, linked to the Noel Fernández Municipal Agricultural Company, the progress that their producers have achieved in the breeding of cattle and goats, production swine, as well as in planting and adequate attention to various crops, says La Voz ...

In the exchange, the fulfillment of the meat and milk delivery plans, as well as the good condition of pastures and animals stood out. Sites were also visited where the land is prepared to complete 17 hectares with plantains and more than 13 with yucca.

This website also refers to the recognition of the farmers who promote the method of raising Creole pigs with a dark coat, which is assumed as a strategy in the locality. According to experts, this breed is more resistant and admits a diet adapted to low inputs, diverse foods such as by-products of crops and palm kernel. This variety reports less meat, but is more viable in the current circumstances of the country, says the local station.

According to Radio Vertientes, authorities of the province and the municipality visited the El Jagüey community this week, belonging to the Invasive Route Popular Council to evaluate and stimulate the dynamics of food production.

This website indicates that Yoslaida Benítez Francis, municipal coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) in the territory called for growth in benchmark patios; however, he pointed out that there are several crops that may deserve this classification.

That is the case of Noel Salserio, a UBPC worker Armando Diéguez Pupo, and his wife Yaquelín Fernández, who told about the varieties of bananas, corn, chili peppers and other viands, vegetables and vegetables that they grow in their patio, he adds. Radio Slopes.

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