The visitor, who arrives at “La Bonita” farm for the sustainable production of beef, immediately realizes that its workers honor the name of this entity, belonging to the Guantanamo Poultry Enterprise.
The farm is located in the Arroyo Hondo community, belonging to the Paraguay district of this city, on land that years ago was dedicated to the harvest of sugar cane and that then idle land for a long time.
Eider Álvarez Ramírez, director of the Guantanamo Poultry Enterprise, said, “In March 2021, after the implementation of the 63 measures of the Ministry of Agriculture to increase food production, this farm was born,”.
“Currently it has an extension of 42.3 hectares and the perspective is to add another 42 that will be dedicated to obtaining animal feed, mainly with the cultivation of protein plants such as mulberry, pigeon pea, among others. It is purpose to be able to produce all the food demanded by the different species of animals that are raised”.
After two and a half years of starting the poultry project at La Bonita farm, it has obtained reproduction of more than 400 quails, some 300 semi-rustic hens to obtain eggs, and which have already contributed more than 110 thousand units for sale to the population of nearby communities with vulnerable situations such as Cecilia and Arroyo Hondo.
“Sheep breeders grew from 20 to 43, and now the number of these copies is 168, after selling the first two tons of meat – emphasizes Álvarez Ramírez and argues – “for the development of the new sheep-goat program, they will soon have a significant number of goats.”
The presence of five ostrich trios, a large-sized African birds, called the attention that have adapted well to the conditions of the place and, after careful care and a complex reproduction process, the first four births were achieved.
The veterinarian Yoelkis Rodríguez said, “without a doubt, the results that “La Bonita” shows today would not be possible without the dedication and
hard work of all workers, 13 in total, day by day, most of them residents of nearby communities that they found in this entity a new source of employment.
This is what the 18-year-old Yoelkis Rodríquez Revé, a veterinary technician who found a job there, also found personal fulfillment for himself.
Examples like those of this farm and its workers’ team are worthy of imitation throughout the province, so that, according to the words of Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés during his visit to the place, “in Guantánamo, the La Bonita farm is the rule and not the exception.”
