"There is no more beautiful gift to the memory of the martyr Sabino Pupo and to the Agrarian Reform Law, that in the midst of the tense situation we are experiencing, we increase all types of food production," said the prominent rancher Carlos Alberto Pozo Ramírez , member of the CCS Juan Manuel Romero, from the Irene neighborhood, in this municipality of Calixto García.

And that is what the majority of the peasants think, who today are celebrating his Day, also remembering the 60th Anniversary of the National Association of Small Farmers (Anap).

It is true that the extensive drought, which has now lasted six months, the difficulties imposed by Covid 19 and the diabolical blockade of the United States government, have caused a shortage of vital food for the population, despite the members of All the productive forms of this territory make enormous efforts to get more out of the land.

Efforts are multiplying throughout our geography, but it is fair to acknowledge the results of several cooperatives, among them that of Credit and Services Ignacio Agramonte, of Sabanazo and the CPA Guillermón Moncada, of San Ramón, which have deserved the appropriate praise, for result from better comprehensive work, respectively.

“We know well what our productive form represents for this town, that is why we are always looking for alternatives to obtain more food, whether it be donkey or male plantain, cassava, sweet potato, pumpkin and vegetables. Now we are entering into the sowing of taro, and we have the greatest joy for the return of the rice planting, after several years without doing it. In a very short time we will be delivering the first quantities of rice to the shops of the municipality ”, emphasized in the affirmations of Orestes Moreno Fernández, president of Guillermón Moncada.