The search for the foreign market constitutes a path that marks the path of agricultural producers from the Holguin municipality of Calixto García, as an alternative to the demands of increased food production.
Amado Pérez Ricardo, associated with the Onelio Díaz cooperative, located in the Janata community, belonging to the Vista Hermosa Popular Council, overcame skepticism and demonstrated that it can be done.
“Since the country's leadership presented the need to increase exports, I showed interest. Even though at the beginning it seemed difficult, I started the road with the initial orientation of the Company of Selected Fruits of the Holguín province that saw in my fruits qualities for the demands of the market and I definitely managed to export a ton of eggplant with which it was demonstrated that you want it then you get it."
The delay in some of the certification procedures, accredited to Vegetal Health, delayed the business, while the aubergine field began to lose qualities for export, a situation that the Holguín Seed Company did not reject to obtain seeds of that fruit that very they will soon become widespread among other agricultural producers.
Diuvichén Vila Torres, an export specialist in the direction of the Government of this municipality, recognizes this result as part of the path traveled: “Several producers have shown interest in exporting and today they are striving to achieve attractive products for the foreign market. There is experience in exporting charcoal through the Livestock Company, the La Jíquima Agricultural Company and the Business Units of Silvicultural and Flora and Fauna Base. Importers have already shown interest with the Chile Habanero pepper, the Aubergine and the Persian Lima, but this year coal will be consolidated as the main exportable item that should reach around 500 tons in 2021 ”.
In the cultivated fields, other agricultural products with demand in the foreign market are identified, such as Papaya, Avocado and other fruits and vegetables of recognized nutritional value that will allow the income of foreign exchange to producers to assume the costs of inputs that they demand the increase in production and the country's food sovereignty.
