In tune with the challenges and tasks faced by the peasant sector in the current circumstances. The XIII Congress of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP by it’s initials in Spanish) was inaugurated today at the Havana Convention Palace.
Before the 397 delegates from all over the country gathered there. Felix Duarte Ortega, member of the Council of State and national president of ANAP, read a summary of the report that will be discussed today and tomorrow with a critical analysis of the results and challenges identified by the organization in the period.
The document includes, among other priorities, the fight against crime and illegalities. The completion of the cadre policy, the political-ideological work and other issues contemplated in the work objectives and discussed in the organic process prior to the event.
Duarte Ortega pointed out that ANAP has 3,198 cooperatives, of which 807 are agricultural production cooperatives (CPA) and 2,391 are Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCS). Which group around 404,806 associates, with a growth of 12,150 new members with respect to the XII Congress.
He stressed the need to continue supporting the Rurality Program with creativity and the search for solutions that promote the improvement of living and working conditions in rural communities.
He pointed out that the fight against crime, corruption, illegalities, social indiscipline and prevention is a priority. With particular emphasis on the theft and illegal slaughter of livestock. As well as illegalities in the use and ownership of land, lack of control of livestock. Diversion of agricultural production; provision of legal personality; violation of the corporate purpose; and the cultivation of marihuana, among others.
As regards food production in different areas, he said that they are working to raise yield levels so that it will be possible to fulfill the agreed plans despite the limitations imposed by the intensification of the blockade against the largest of the Antilles and its impact on various vital aspects to ensure agricultural work.
With the development of its conclave, the ANAP will commemorate this Saturday, May 17th, the Day of the Cuban Peasantry, on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the assassination of peasant leader Niceto Pérez García. The 66th anniversary of Fidel’s signing of the Agrarian Reform Law and the 64th anniversary of the organization’s constitution.
With information from CNA
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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