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About 120 tons of mango are expected to be harvested by the Miguel Betancourt Credit and Service Cooperative (CCS) in the municipality of Contramaestre this year. This is a productive …
Contracting and efficiency, key to securing the current mango crop Read More
Cuban tobacco is considered the best in the world, a quality that was achieved since the first decades of the 19th century. The high quality of the leaf allows it …
May 29 Tobacco Worker’s Day Read More
The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) is 63 years old. This organization was founded in 1961 and its objective is to represent the interests of farmers, agricultural cooperative members …
Farmers’ national association, 63 years at the side of the Cuban peasantry Read More
On May 17, 1959, in La Plata Commandery, in the Sierra Maestra, Fidel Castro signed the first Agrarian Reform Law. This measure responded to one of the aspects of the …
Agrarian Reform Law, 65 years now Read More
Salvador Velázquez García is a farmer from the town of Maffo, who earns his daily bread by working in the furrow, soaking in sweat and working the land to make …
Tight to the furrow to make the land produce Read More
There is no one like these farmers to embrace the most authentic traditions and preserve the rural culture of the Cuban nation. In their daily life are mixed the hope …
Farmer’s job, fruitfulness multiplied by honest work. Read More
Eleonide Dimet Beltrández is one of the many Cuban Quixote that bets every day to make produce the land. Farmer of the Cooperative of Agricultural Production (CPA) Saturnino Lora Torres, …
Eleonide Dimet, a field quixote Read More
The agricultural sector will be present on Saturday, May 11 at the fair to be held in the municipality of Contramaestre on the occasion of Mother’s Day celebrations. This same …
Agricultural and livestock fair is being prepared in Contramaestre for Mother’s Day Read More
On May 10, the process of strengthening the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) will end in the Santiago municipality of Contramaestre. Thirty-four assemblies have been organized in this eastern …
The process of strengthening cooperatives in Contramaestre is completed Read More
Today, May 4, in spite of a prolonged drought in the east of Cuba, the different food producing entities of the municipality, come to the Agricultural Fair of Contramaestre to …
Contramaestre Agricultural and Livestock Fair on Saturdays Read More