In the 5th Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power corresponding to the IX Legislature, in May 2022, Law 148 on Food Sovereignty and Food and Nutrition Security (SSAN) was approved, whose supreme goal is to progressively boost all levels of the food production in Cuba.
Thus also achieving, based on the existing potentialities in the nation, reduce the high budget that is allocated annually to the import of raw materials and food products, achieve food sovereignty, strengthen food security programs and guarantee the right to food.
The verification of compliance with the implementation of the SSAN Plan and the progress of the programs to increase food production in the territories, were the objectives of the visit carried out in Guantanamo by a national delegation to the ten Guantanamo municipalities, chaired by the member of the Bureau Politician of the Central Committee of the Party and Vice President of the Republic Salvador Valdés Mesa.
In a meeting with government directors, Agriculture, Food and other organizations and companies, leaders of the Party, the different political and mass organizations, productive bases and outstanding peasants, the municipal self-supply program, the planting plan for various crops, the mechanisms for agreement and contracting of milk, meat, vegetables, grains and other basic products, the agreement of prices, non-payment to peasants and confrontation of crime.
In all the territories, the municipal mayors presented the lines of work designed to achieve food sovereignty and food and nutritional security, until 2030, in correspondence with the Territorial Development Strategies, as well as the actions to increase the production of food locally.
During each meeting, the Vice President highlighted the importance of “properly implementing the food sovereignty plan and achieving higher planting levels of different crops, in a very complex economic moment with many limitations.”
“More than an evaluation of the province – said Valdés Mesa – it is about launching the call to produce more food, based on the existing potential in each territory and regardless of the intensification of the Yankee blockade of the Island, the drought and the lack of fuel and inputs for agriculture”.
At the end of his three-day visit to Guantánamo, the Cuban Vice President gave his impressions of the progress of the Food Sovereignty Plan and the work for food production in the municipalities of the Cuban Upper East. ][/bg_collapse]
