The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma for its Spanisdh acronym) in the Cuban province of Holguin is expanding the execution of projects focused on sustainable agriculture to improve soil conditions and crop yields.
In addition to the programs already in place in municipalities such as Sagua de Tánamo and Banes, which have benefited from technological packages from international organizations, will be added others in Calixto García and Urbano Noris focused on promoting the use of agroecological techniques and resilience to climate change.
Geovanny Zaldívar Martínez, provincial sub-delegate of that agency, emphasized to ACN that in these territories, priority is given to the training of producers and the use of natural fertilizers with proven effectiveness such as worm humus.
Farmers are also trained in the planting of pastures and forage to provide animal feed from species with high nutritional content and in view of the limitations to the import of these inputs, caused by the global economic crisis, he said.
He specified that other strategies of the agricultural programs in the municipalities of Holguin province are to expand the soil demonstration polygons and forestry farms aimed at the experimental development of biofertilizers and the evaluation of seeds for the cultivation of species adapted to the intense drought.
Through these initiatives, which link science and innovation to government management, it is also possible to face with local solutions the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba.
At the same time, Holguín province is promoting other initiatives to contribute to the development of agriculture and to raise the standard of living of vulnerable populations, prioritizing hard to reach localities in the mountains, which occupies 20 percent of the surface of the eastern province.
With information from the Cuban News Agency / Translated by Radio Angulo
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