The general secretary of that institution, Aymara Rodriguez Fernandez, told ACN that these professionals will graduate from 20 majors in the seven faculties of the university (Agricultural, Economic, Social, and Humanistic Sciences, and Law, Informatics and Engineering).

Rodriguez noted that among the 1,300 graduates, there are 21 foreign students as a result of cooperation agreements between that university and another 28 in Namibia, Grenada, Dominica, Suriname, China, Guadalupe, Uganda, and Antigua and Barbuda.

UNICA is an important pillar in the local development of that territory since it has undertaken significant researches that contribute with economic sectors like agriculture and sugar production.

A methodologist from that institution, Moises Exposito Llanes, explained that nowadays they are putting into practice 13 projects that benefit the production and preservation of food.

Exposito mentioned the identification of natural enemies of tomato and corn pests, the use of fertilizers for growing vegetables, and the classification of milk systems in Ciego de Avila city, as some of the main results obtained during this academic year.

Research achievements by UNICA, which was founded in 1978, are supported by 16 awards granted by the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Two of these awards were presented this year.