With an annual growth in forest cover, Guantanamo holds the second largest forest heritage of the country, an achievement resulting of multifactorial work and the coordination of actions for the promotion of forestry plantations.
With an annual growth in forest cover, Guantanamo holds the second largest forest heritage of the country, an achievement resulting of multifactorial work and the coordination of actions for the promotion of forestry plantations.
In the province about 45 percent of the land area is reforested and experts are working to plant more than 17 000 hectares until 2000 30, the engineer Maricel Fernández Pérez, a specialist of the State Service, explains.
Over the past year this commitment was noticeably boosted by planting more than 35000 hectares between seeded or in a natural form in the woods, monitored by environmentalists.
In this period also they produced more than 5 million seedlings of fruit trees and timber needed for replacement and the cultivation of new areas, as well as promoting the reconstruction of areas for the benefit of natural ecosystems.
Maricel Perez Fernandez, the expert of the State Service, emphasizes that for this year they are still committed to plant to date more than three hundred acres, a work that validates the guidelines on the development of a comprehensive program of maintenance, preservation and promotion of plantations in Cuba.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez