The State Program to deal with climate change (Tarea Vida) advances in Guantanamo and its implementation continues in a medium-term period until 2025, based on the joint work of several organizations and the CITMA´s Environment Subdelegation, in the effort to counteract the effects of this global phenomenon.
The actions are aimed at reducing water loss and studying its quality, organizing areas for the readjustment of settlements and avoiding construction in areas prone to coast or river flooding, as well as a better soil management and the introduction of varieties of beans and corn, mainly resistant to drought effects.
Other actions are the reforestation of more than 60 hectares in areas of the territories of Baracoa, Caimanera and Guantanamo, in addition to the use of sprinkler irrigation technologies with solar energy to produce animal feed in 25 hectares of the Iván Rodríguez Livestock Enterprise, said Lisandra Rubio Rodiles, deputy delegate of the Environment in the province.
A center for the production of organic fertilizers was also created in the municipality of Guantanamo and urban sanitation actions were carried out on the banks of the Guaso, Jaibo and Santa María rivers. Those tasks help to care about the environment and the well-being of the residents.
All Guantanamo municipalities are involved in the Tarea Vida (Life Task) Program, although it is carried out with the greatest emphasis in Baracoa, a multi-risk area with several rainfalls and the vulnerabilities of the coastal areas and near the rivers, in addition to the southern coastal belt, the Cuban Semidesert, the driest land in the country.
Translated and Edited by Ilia Charon
