Experience started for four years, more than 20 soil polygons existing in Cuba seeks today to revert the state of degradation of that natural resource indispensable to ensure food security, according to a source from the sector.
Experience started for four years, more than 20 soil polygons existing in Cuba seeks today to revert the state of degradation of that natural resource indispensable to ensure food security, according to a source from the sector.
Experts state that they are demonstrative areas in which organic fertilizers, bio pesticides, planting in contour, retain rainwater on land, and other measures to prevent erosion and land degradation are used.
Talking with Prensa Latina, Olegario Muñiz, president of the Cuban Society of Soil Science, stated that the representatives of each specialty who have to do with preservation and management of soils, are working in those polygons with a comprehensive approach.
The mentioned spaces are based on the harmonic and balanced management of water, forest and soil in the farm of the producer -main stage, the basic unit of agriculture- to protect that vital resource, he noted.
Muñiz, who belongs to the Institute of Researches of Soil, stated that about 75 percent of cultivable lands of the country are affected for at least a limiting factor of its productivity.
Against those phenomena, Cuba applies, for more than one decade, a national program for the preservation of soils and struggle against desertification and drought, which gives important results.
Muñiz, also president of the Organizing Committee of Soils 2015, starting tomorrow here, stated that about 300 experts from more than 20 countries will participate, to debate on the sustainable management of that vital resource for food security.
Source. PL