During a tour of the National Group of Urban and Suburban Agriculture the
island´s provinces were qualified as good with over 99 points in the
productive modality.

In an interview to AIN News Agency, Adolfo Rodriguez Nodals head of the
program recognized the advances in recent months and urged to
progressively strengthen the cultivation and complete four hectares of
eggplants, small and regular peppers in each municipality.

Nodals also urged not to neglect biological control of the protected and
semi protected areas beginning from the main agro ecological mechanisms
and recommended planting okra and string beans to also secure the winter
stage.

In other aspects, he also proposed guaranteeing animal feed in the farms,
which are necessary year-round and intensify the use of oxen, in addition
to complying with the delivery of medicinal plants in the territory.
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The National Group congratulated the municipality of San Antonio de los
Baños for its results and advances in the different agricultural sub
programs close to the neighborhoods.

Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, First Secretary of the Communist Party in
the province said that food production is the country´s second sector that
generates most costs to the Cuban State forcing everyone to work harder in
reducing spendings and satisfy the demands of the population.