Guantánamo.- “It is encouraging to know the results of this group in breeding buffalos, continue promoting this experience,” said Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, at the end of an exchange with cattle breeders from the Base Business Unit number 2, of the Livestock Company ‘Iván Rodríguez,’ in the municipality of Niceto Pérez.
Díaz-Canel had a pleasant dialogue with the livestock owners, from whom he learned about their good results in the growth of the cattle, thanks to adequate management, high birth rates and reduced deaths, according to Jorge Luis Mendoza, head of livestock at the Territorial Delegation of Agriculture.
The president learned that the province currently has 1,609 buffalos, distributed in the municipalities of Manuel Tames, El Salvador, Guantánamo, Baracoa and Niceto Pérez, the latter with 80 percent of the heads.
During the past year, progress was made in the number of animals and in seven new units, for a total of 17. The development program, until 2030, plans to reach 13 more buffaloes.
The First Secretary of the Party commented that time has been lost in breeding buffalos in the country and emphasized the need to use buffalos in agricultural work, mainly in land preparation.
