A year full of challenges for the inhabitants of the municipality of Contramaestre is coming to an end. Conditioned by the financial limitation in its main economic strength, agriculture, the territory received a hard impact that was only alleviated thanks to the creative resistance of the peasantry.
It was the beginning of 2024 and on February 24, in the same place where it was called to fight for the freedom of the homeland 129 years ago, hundreds of baireros representing the people of Santiago ratified the conviction of Independence or Death.
In spite of the serious limitations of essential resources such as fuels, lubricants and supplies in general, the agricultural sector in Contramaestre showed a dynamic of adaptation, which allowed it to consolidate in five areas of development and the productive pole of Bungo, which fulfilled its plans of self-sufficiency.
A noteworthy development in the agricultural sector was the increase in the areas devoted to the cultivation of popular rice, through an extensionist movement that is growing every day with leading farmers who are committed to this productive modality under agroecological conditions.
In the year that is ending Contramaestre saw the birth of a new mixed capital company, BioCubaCafé; it should contribute, in 2025, important economic dividends and in the development of the coffee infrastructure of the territory. The two most important agricultural companies definitely passed to the local subordination.