In order to check the works of the East-West transfer, the Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman travels around the area of the main reservoir of Herrera Dos, in the holguine municipality of Mayarí, where the operation by gravity allows a capacity of 100 thousand cubic meters.
The water reaches this reservoir through the Nipe-Deleite-Cosme-Herrera canal, 6.7 kilometers long, which was completed in 2019.
There she was informed that the Herrera Dos replaces the work of the Cuba Dos pumping station, which consumes 400 kwatts, and other stations that feed the irrigation machines.
It will also benefit 2,800 hectares destined to the cultivation of rice from the Cosme Herrera production center in Guatemala.
To date, the first 125 hectares benefit from the semi-engineered system, intended for this crop to replace imports.
Chapman urged taking advantage of the 100,000-cubic-meter reservoir to plant fish. "It would be doubly beneficial for rice cultivation and aquaculture," said the deputy prime minister.
On this day, Chapman visited areas of the construction of the Levisa dam, a work that will take over the reservoir of just over 80 million cubic meters and will be crossed by an 18 km tunnel.
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