Artemisa is considered as the most productive province of food in Cuba and although it went through some productive irregularities during the first months of the previous year. It concluded the year 2011 with positive results in the agricultural sphere, according to statements made by Raúl Rodríguez Cartaya, president of the Provincial Assembly of the Popular Power.

“We did achieved to fulfill the plans of sowing in relation to products such as potato, bean, tobacco, among others, and in the case of tobacco, he stated, it was also achieved the 51% of its exportation crops with excellent yields. Besides, the programs devised for the production of eggs were widely fulfilled by obtaining more than 229 millions eggs which constituted 4 millions above the planned number for the year while the pork meat production in Artemisa province obtained 12 thousand tons by the end of the year 2011 which constituted 500 more than the planned production for that stage. The sugar production, on its part, reached 63 thousand tons.”

The aforementioned products are essential to achieve the reduction of the levels in relation to food exportation at present time given the rise in prices of food in the international market caused by the world economic crisis generated by the capitalist system.”

The top official of the government in Artemisa also said that the official delivery of idle lands, which is a plan devised to increase the production of food for the population nationwide, constituted a priority in the province at the end of the last year.

It has been delivered around 50 thousand hectares of idle lands of which 80% of them continue being exploited while there are 13 thousand ones left to be delivered. We should say the fact that there is a right hiring process carried out between growers and enterprises from Artemisa in this field as well as the implementation of a new system of commercialization that meets the demands of growers and consumers which is a work in which we plan to excel given the importance of this activity in the new province of Artemisa that has a population of more than 500 thousand inhabitants.” By José Luis Guía