When some people thought that the Baire Feed Mill Base Business Unit would collapse due to the lack of imported raw material in the midst of COVID-19, its staff put into practice creative resistance and went ahead.
Following those first steps with the production of alternative or Creole feed, the Baire Feed Mill consolidated its productive results, closing cycles that go from the sowing and harvesting of raw material to the commercialization of meat and eggs.
On this farm, viands such as cassava and grains such as soybeans are harvested. Once transported to the industry, the raw material is processed in this specially modified facility, where an enthusiastic group of workers, who are the architects of the innovations that maintain the vitality of this structure, work.
This is the source of the fodder that sustains other production initiatives promoted by collectives such as La Pedregosa, where the breeding of small livestock has multiplied year after year. A wide variety of animals abound in these farms where the purpose is to grow constantly.
In this other project, animal feed is guaranteed and the first organic eggs are already being collected.
Baire races semi-rustic hens
As a sign of the expansion and development ambitions of the management and the collective of the Baire Feed Mill Base Business Unit, the breeding of semi-rustic hens and quail is also increasing here. Their feed also comes from raw materials obtained in the Contramaestrian countryside.
Given such an impressive panorama of productive prosperity in the midst of serious limitations of resources, we should ask ourselves: What would have become of this entity if its men and women had not put ideas, hands and heart to move forward?
This is an example of what can be done in the midst of very difficult conditions and at the same time it shows how much potential we still have to exploit on the road we Cubans are traveling towards food sovereignty.
