Contramaestre, having at his disposal a dozen local development projects is in the process of fueling food production for the people , given the challenges posed by the complex situation that Cuba is experiencing, derived essentially from the iron-fished economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government.
Also in order to give effect to Law 148, Law on Food Sovereignty, Food Security and Nutrition, The implementation of food production plans from the laudable take-off of food systems in various productive poles and areas of agricultural development must lead to the achievement of food sovereignty in lines essential to ensure the support of the inhabitants.
This eastern territory of Cuba, whose fundamental economic base lies in agriculture, has projects that respond to the Strategic Development Line regarding food production. Among them is one aimed at producing fried grain and enhancing it through various agricultural structures.
Highlights the project that meets the purposes agreed with a thermal park built in areas adjacent to the photovoltaic site of the zone “El Encanto”, for the use of renewable energy access to massive and accelerated multiplication of postures from agamic seeds in thermal chambers for banana and malanga crops.
According to the projections for this project, the municipality expects to reach annually levels higher than four million positions, aimed at the different actors of local production systems in the territories of the Third Front and Contramaestre, It will be possible to achieve sales of more than 84 million pesos per year of exploitation of its capacities.
However, in order to achieve the above-mentioned goals, it is up to the local administration to exercise a permanent exercise in the forms of control over producers, the contracting process, the progress of the recovery of productive poles and the use of land. It is also up to the municipal government to raise the level of demands on the cadres who run the agricultural system in Contramaestre.