As examples to generalize, Salvador Valdés Mesa, vice president of the Council of State and Ministers, cataloged the experiences of his meeting with workers linked to local development projects as part of the Food Sovereignty Program in the municipality of Calixto García.
During the government visit to this municipality, Vice President Valdés Mesa toured the cultivation areas of the “La Bendecida” farm, led by Yanier Fajardo Rabelo, usufructuary of the Cristino Naranjo Agricultural Production Cooperative (CPA), who already shows results in the increase of areas of banana and other various crops that have emerged after clearing the weeds.
Valdés Mesa arrived at a reservoir where more than 60,000 Tench fry are already being raised, where he received explanations of the technology for raising fish in which organic matter encourages underwater grass for their food, the development of which will allow the first catches to be made at the end of the year. of the month of December.
The usufructuary entrepreneur seems to have no rest hours and already plans to process fish meat for the production of sausages and other meat-derived products in his industry.
The Cuban vice president was interested in the fate that the production will have and has, thinking that projects like these should be extended to other bodies of water close to communities to promote food sufficiency.
The continuity of the government visit extended to the Minindustria “La Gloria”, of Olmo Santisteban Toppes, belonging to the CCS Cristino Naranjo, whose raw materials are obtained from the production of vegetables on a farm that grew with the delivery of lands in usufruct. and with contracts with productive organizations that supply fruits and vegetables.
The production of fruit pulps and preserved vegetables is also produced with the production chain with the Holguín company “Turquino” and contracts with suppliers from nearby agricultural cooperatives.
At the La Gloria Minindustry, Salvador Valdés Mesa was interested in the destination of the production and how it benefits the community that provides a large part of the youth force that produces more than 12 products and lines that reach the population of the nearby communities.
At the end of the tour, the Cuban vice president took a collective photo, and wrote in the visitor's book... "This is a good example that it is necessary to generalize in other Popular Councils to achieve what the Food Sovereignty and Education Program calls us to do." Nutritional.”
