More than 8 500 hectares of land were benefited with measures of conservation and improvement of soil in this province between last year and the first four months of the current.
More than 8 500 hectares of land were benefited with measures of conservation and improvement of soil in this province between last year and the first four months of the current.
Of the favored area, 6,430 hectares correspond to 2016 and 2 081 to the first four months of the current year, according to Teudy Limeres Jiménez, the provincial director of Soils.
He added that the application of worm humus, compost and other organic fertilizers, as well as the rectification of drainage channels, essentially in agricultural areas of the Guantanamo Valley, including sugar cane fields are the main measures of soil improvement implemented.
Among the most commonly used conservation practices, Limares mentioned the correction of gullies, sowing in contour and plant cover, in addition to the construction of live and dead barriers.
Of the total area benefited a good part corresponds to the period after the passage of Hurricane Matthew, which demanded to apply simple measures of conservation as the cordoning of the remains of the trees demolished by the cyclone, said Antonio de Jesús Leyva Granado, soil specialist.
With this last measure, mainly coffee, cacao and forest areas were rescued, mainly in the municipalities of Baracoa and Maisí, the most affected by the weather phenomenon.
In Guantanamo, demonstrative polygons for the conservation of soils, water and forests of Tumbalavana and Arenal, the latter in the mountain of Yateras municipality are shown in a and they are working on the creation of others.
The development of the soil conservation and improvement program is supported throughout the country by state millionaire financing. Only in this eastern province during the past year four millions 294,000 pesos were contributed for this purpose.
Source: Granma
Translation: Liubis Balart