Camagüey, April 8.- The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and vice president of the Republic, Salvador Valdés Mesa, evaluated in Camagüey programs focused on food production, and paid special attention to those related to increasing results. in the rice line.
In the municipality of Florida, the vice president spoke at the San Juan del Centro farm, of the Camilo Cienfuegos Credit and Services Cooperative, with the rice producer Lázaro Puerta Fundora, with good experiences that must be multiplied to contribute to the country's purpose of increasing offers of food and lower prices.

Accompanied by the member of the Central Committee of the Party and first secretary in the province, Federico Hernández Hernández, and the governor Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, Valdés Mesa urged growth in areas for obtaining cereal, based on better use of resources available endogenous resources, including water reservoirs; and urged compliance with production cycles in accordance with the conditions of nature.
Given the high incidence of fertilizers on costs, he advocated making greater use of biological products to control pests and diseases, while ratifying the priority of the application of science and technology to increase yields and lower the high prices that affect the people. In the dialogue with Lázaro Puerta Fundora, the Vice President learned about the important supply of seeds from the farm to other rice growers in the territory, in addition to the sale of the grain to some social institutions.