CAMAGÜEY.- The province is serious about solving the needs of food production, and ending with the justification that sometimes surrounds the agricultural panorama, for not ensuring the promotion of several crops with the argument of the few availability of water and in others occasions due to excessive rainfall.

Both ideas predominated and could be observed during a two-day visit to the province of José Ramón Machado Ventura, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, who audited rice production in South Florida, poultry growth in El Porvenir farm, and the link of this one with the incubator, belonging to the Camagüey Poultry Company, where some time ago 10 000 guineas were born.

In San Antonio People's Council, where the demarcation on the Libertad rice mill, visited by Fidel on February 10, 1960, is deployed. Michel Bayate Camejo, General Director of the Agro-industrial Grain Company Ruta Invasora, said that the State Farm Ignacio Agramonte has a fund of 1 775 hectares of which 808 are clean with the possibility of planting rice in 750 ha.

The director said that the area has 93 wells -33 of the state sector and the rest in the peasant and cooperative, once clarified that the aquifer is closed, property that makes it more difficult to enter the salinity of the sea to the crop of the grain.

In "El Porvenir", more than 20,000 guineas are visible together, this year should reach 50,000, some 1 800 gourds and a batch of free-range chickens with the double purpose of laying eggs, raising the feed and reducing the consumption of industrial feed by alternative sources such as rice husks.

The development of rabbits breedingis beginning in Florida. In his visit through Camagüey, Machado appreciated the recovery work at the dairy factory La Vaquita. The guide received detailed information from Alexis Gil Pérez, general director of the company. San José de Los Jíbaros marked another special moment to appreciate the acceleration of bull fattening.

The transforming work in vials, electrification and for the supply of water is palpable between the productive modules of La Justa and La Vega with 61 caballerias (unit of measurement) in the territory of Vertientes and in Guayabito.

In the productive project kilometer 36 of the highway of Santa Cruz del Sur, pertaining to the municipality of Najasa, a constructive movement takes place with the plan of sowing of different crops, even of malanga(taro), that abounded in the decade of the '80. Machado, in front of a large group of producers, asked if they are aware that the program raised rises, all with one voice said: "Sure!".

" I mean it frankly, we have to make an effort. We are going to develop this and every day and year is better, not back down. We can do it, we do not have all the resources yet, but there are new equipment and tractors in agriculture and other structures which collaborate with it, "said the Vice-President of the Council of State, who called the land to the maximum.

About six o'clock in the afternoon of the first day in Camagüey, Machado Ventura appreciated at the San Cayetano Farm, of the Genetic Company Rescate de Sanguily, the continuity that is given to Fidel's ideas on the promotion of the specialized vaccine mass. Latest advances in the embryo transfer laboratory.

On Friday, the visit continues with Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and First Secretary in the province, and Isabel González Cárdenas, President of the Government, to visit the school in Sibanicú, a newly developed center in order to breed about 5,000 goats, which is adjacent to the Caracuna rams breeding center, Jimaguayu. That will be indeed like that. In Guáimaro, there is the provincial farm of seeds of protein plants, while food, rabbits are produced under Fidel's conception that Camagüey will once again occupy a preponderant place in the production of food for humans and animals.

Translated by Ludys Peguero Domínguez/ 3rd year English Language student