More than seventeen thousand hectares of land are ready to be sown by Guantanamo growers during the spring, a figure that exceeds by 16 percent the initial plan and volumes of the previous year.
More than seventeen thousand hectares of land are ready to be sown by Guantanamo growers during the spring, a figure that exceeds by 16 percent the initial plan and volumes of the previous year.
Diosnel Sanloy, Deputy Delegate of the Ministry of Agriculture responsible for various crops in the province, explained that this commitment is the response of producers to the call of the country's leadership to increase food production and substitute imports.
Among the crops of larger areas to be planted are the root tubers with more than seven thousand nine hundred hectares, in particular the banana plentiful in the coffee plantations in recovery process after the severe damages caused by Hurricane Mathew.
Grain plantations in the productive centers of the Caujerí Valley, Vega Grande and Chapala also increase, mainly areas that benefit from new technologies such as seeding machines, harvesters, irrigation systems and water sources.
In the meantime, vegetables are boosted in areas, where the climate favors their cultivation during the summer and they have, in this opportunity, the support of the necessary technological packages.
In addition, the Deputy Delegate of the Ministry of Agriculture in Guantanamo, Diosnel Sanloy, stressed the need to plant in the current spring season, 1,200 hectares of fruit trees among which coconut cultivation is prioritized since it was devastated by the winds of the Hurricane Mathew in October 2016.