600 hectares of tobacco planted in Las Tunas

[El Presidente]

 

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They will plant 600 hectares of tobacco in Las Tunas

 

Planting 600 hectares of tobacco is the objective that the workers of the sector have set in this eastern Cuban province, it was known at the start of the 2021-2022 planting campaign, held at the La Patrona farm, in charge of promoting this item, located in the San Pedro neighborhood, of the main city.

 

The vegueros of Las Tunas will plant 600 hectares in the current season. Photo: Jorge Pérez

 

 

 

To ensure the fulfillment of the purpose, they will combine traditional methods and advanced technologies that include 15 thousand beds and 13 tunnels equipped with 12 thousand 350 root ball trays that will guarantee the positions necessary to fulfill the planned plan, whose strategy foresees to carry out 10 percent of the total this month, the 60th in November and the others in December, said Romilio López Álvarez, agricultural director of the Tobacco Collection, Benefit and Twisting Company.

The director of the entity, Carlos Betancourt Almaguer, told the press that simultaneously three other municipalities - Jesús Menéndez, Colombia and Manatí began the work, on the day that greets the 152nd anniversary of the start of our independence struggle in La Demajagua .

 

 

In full planting work. Photo: Reynaldo López Peña

 

 

 

The manager announced that of the total hectares to be sealed of the aromatic leaf, they have a figure higher than 300 in full conditioning, which he described as an advantage that will allow them, despite the limitations with fuel and other resources, to crown the success of a production that constitutes an exportable item of importance for the agricultural system in the country.

It also meant that the new prices established are an incentive for producers in the face of the imperative to seek alternatives in the face of deficiencies and find solutions to the problems generated by the current difficult economic situation as a consequence of the intensification of the blockade imposed by the government of the States. States and the impact of the pandemic.

In the central activity, the delivery to the Company of two million pesos was reported, the result of the land tax, which will be used to modernize the Enrique Casals twisted tobacco factory for national consumption, in the capital city, with the interest to create the conditions that allow it to insert its products in the international market.

 

 

The member of the Party's Central Committee and its first secretary in Las Tunas, Manuel René Pérez Gallego (left), presented awards to outstanding workers. Photo: Reynaldo López Peña

 

 

The occasion was propitious to stimulate workers with outstanding results in these activities who play an important role in attracting foreign exchange for the logistical support of their order and other activities related to food production.

The act was chaired by the member of the Party's Central Committee and its first secretary in Las Tunas, Manuel René Pérez Gallego; the Deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power and Governor of the province; Jaime Ernesto Chiang Vega; and the general secretaries of the CTC and the trade union, Leobanys Ávila Góngora and Carlos Antonio Cruz Pagán, respectively.

Issi Diez Duardo, economic director of the Tabacuba Business Group, attended the meeting and recognized the progress that the province is experiencing in the cultivation of tobacco leaves and expressed his confidence that all the goals will be achieved.