Every good Cuban likes to eat vegetables, fruits and season food well; however, these are crops that each municipality must guarantee according to the Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security Law. The local government autonomy strategy should stimulate agricultural production and regulate prices.
“It is inconceivable that food prices are so high in Cacocum, an eminently agricultural municipality,” said Orlando Camejo, producer and delegate to the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power (AMPP).
According to Camejo, it is necessary to carry out a land characterization study to select the appropriate crops for each one of them and use resources efficiently.
Julio Rubio, president of the AMPP’s Agroalimentary Commission in Cacocum, stated that the supply of fuel for food production continues to be insufficient and that low yields are observed, even in spite of investments.
He stressed on the need to search for the best lands and concentrate technology in those of high benefit because otherwise “we are going to continue planting thousands of hectares and we are not going to obtain good results”.
“A major plockade would br the self-blockade, and if measures are not taken to mitigate drought and climate change, we will never make a productive municipality, we must encourage the use of idle land and cultivation in yards and plots,” said Romilio Molina from his experience, one of those men who has taken advantage of a small piece of land where he grows food for his family and contributes to the community.
In addition to the lack of resources for Onílber Rafael Pupo Velázquez, president of a Credit and Services Cooperative, “the second problem we have in Cuba is the management, by allowing cannibal contracts”, this is how he categorized the current form of contracting between producers and companies.
Justo José Sera, producer and president of the People’s Council #6, raised as a difficulty in the production of food the high figures that the productive forms ask for to plow or to provide any service that requires machinery when the fuel is assigned by the government, factor that adds to the price of the same ones.
Cacocumum also fails to comply with the plans to deliver meat and milk to which Sera expressed that “it hurts to see the amount of milk and cheese that is going out clandestine, it hurts that the delivery of meat has not been complied with due to the lack of fuel when it has been produced”.
Cattle, Cacocum
Meanwhile, Támara Lobet Másferrer, president of the commission for crime in the AMPP pointed out that the municipality has 660 criminal acts to date, increasing them by 50%, 186 more than in the same period of 2022.
Of these, 361 incidents of slaughter and theft of livestock stand out significantly, which threatens the meat and milk delivery plans, noting as weaknesses the lack of vision in crime prevention, deficiencies in administrative control and night watch and the poor state of the institutions.
All these criteria and results were exposed in the IX ordinary session of the Assembly of the popular power in Cacocum where Francisco Hernández Aguilera, Governor of the province of Holguín and deputy to the Cuban Parliament for this municipality, was present.
government, Cacocum, food, production
Hernández Aguilera transmitted his concept of local government, “each municipality is a country and it depends on them to achieve the satisfaction of the needs of its people”, while he called to take into account the criteria aired to achieve better results.
Mariela Cruz Herrera, president of the AMPP, highlighted positive examples such as those of the Romilio Molina delegate and the Alfredo Corcho Cinta Mixed Center in Maceo, whose self-consumption area produces food for the students and for sale to workers and the population.
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