Guantánamo – On occasion of the Day of the Agricultural and Forestry Worker, the National Union of the sector awarded the Marcos Martí Medal to Dignora Plutín Sánchez (Poca), president of the Tania La Guerrillera Cooperative Basic Production Unit, for her long and fruitful career for more than 20 years.
“Poca” is an outstanding coffee producer and picker in the mountains of El Salvador Municipality, in Guantanamo Province, where she was a leader of social and mass organizations, a delegate that attended several peasant congresses. She’s been also a leader in her Committee for the Defense of the Revolution.
Plutín Sánchez is important in the Palizada Community, where she lives and excels in her work of recruiting new girls to work, and in her constant effort to strengthen the functioning of the delegations and blocks of the Federation of Cuban Women.
The provincial act of the beginning of the current coffee harvest was also an opportune moment to present the 85th anniversary plaque of the Cuban Workers’ Federation (CTC) to Petronila Neyra Sánchez, a historical leader of the Las Tanias brigade made up of women coffee pickers and worthy of the title of Heroine of Labor of the Republic of Cuba in 2002.
With the contribution of higher figures in various agricultural sectors, the production of food and exportable products, the agricultural and forestry workers of Guantanamo celebrate their day this October 3, proud to conquer this year the condition of Outstanding Province in the fraternal national emulation of the union.
Ariusbel Navarro Speck, general secretary of the provincial Union of Agricultural and Forestry Workers, specified that one of the priority tasks is the current harvest for planting various crops in the cold season, in which it is planned to plant 21,452 hectares (ha), 283 more than the actual amount achieved in the previous spring campaign.
The most significant growth is expected in vegetables with 959 ha, and in grains 794, with a high incidence in okra, green beans, eggplant, beets, chard, plus tomatoes, cabbage and peppers, as part of territorial self-sufficiency.
He also reported that the Guantanamo union movement will celebrate the provincial event on Saturday, October 5, for the aforementioned anniversary at the Capitán Asdrúbal López Processing Coffee Enterprise (Alto Serra), the largest Cuban exporter of the aromatic grain.
The program of activities includes tributes and the delivery of acknowledgments to workers and labor groups for their results in the productive and union spheres, on the occasion of commemorating the 61st anniversary of the promulgation of the second Agrarian Reform Law, issued on October 3, 1963.
