A meeting with top management of the agricultural sector in Holguin province brought together managers, business owners, and local producers in the municipality of Urbano Noris. To evaluate the implementation of a significant portion of the 176 transformations. Recently approved by the Cuban government that impact the agricultural production sector.
According to a post by the local radio station on social media, following the approval of these measures and the new Agricultural and Forestry Land Law. It is essential to explain concepts and regulations and discuss opportunities that offer greater confidence to farmers. Mobilize productive reserves, and awaken dormant potential in the agricultural sector.
The delegation, headed by Diosmanis Cruz Morales, member of the Provincial Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) for the agri-food sector. Yusmila Rodríguez Cruz, provincial delegate of Agriculture. Michel Suárez Torres, provincial president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), praised the structural changes within the Ministry of Agriculture. A redesign aimed at reducing bureaucracy, bringing management closer to producers, and granting greater autonomy to production units.
Rodríguez Cruz explained to those present the essential aspects of this restructuring. Which includes simplifying procedures, strengthening technical services, and decentralizing decision-making to municipal enterprises.
Another topic discussed was the changes to the policy for livestock slaughter. In this regard, Bárbara Rojas, a specialist from the provincial Directorate of Agriculture. She clarified the new procedures, sanitary requirements, and traceability mechanisms that will be required from now on.
The measure seeks to incentivize livestock production, reduce illegal slaughter, and grant greater powers to producers who comply with the established parameters. Also the provincial president of ANAP called for maintaining unity within the cooperative and farming sector in these times. Despite the recent changes, he emphasized that support for farmers must be strengthened, not weakened.
“We cannot leave farmers alone amidst so many transformations. We must walk alongside them, explain things to them, and support them on the ground,” he stated.
During the exchange, the producers voiced their concerns. Among the main problems they highlighted were: non-payment to producers and beneficiaries of milk and other products, which discourages production. Crime, especially the theft of livestock and crops; bureaucratic hurdles in the process of purchasing fuel in foreign currency. And the lack of resources, which hinders land preparation, planting, and harvesting.
These realities, far from being ignored, were embraced by the delegation as the starting point for adjusting the implementation of the measures to the actual needs of the region.
At the close of the meeting, Diosmanis Cruz Morales, a member of the PCC Provincial Bureau for the agri-food sector. He drew on the thought of José Martí to underscore the strategic importance of Cuban farmers:
“A flock of sheep will never be made from a people of farmers,” he quoted.
This idea, he explained, compels those in leadership to work hand in hand with the sector. Both in the political and governmental spheres, to foster its growth along the path of new transformations with all possible awareness and will: “without haste, but without pause.”
The meeting in Urbano Noris yielded more than agreements: it left the certainty that, to be effective, transformations must also be heard from the fields themselves. Because it is not enough to approve laws and decrees; they must be sown in the conscience of those who rise early every day to feed the people.
With information from Jonathan Samuel Miranda/Radio SG
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