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Important Contribution by Biological Products Enterprise to
Local Agriculture
HAVANA, Cuba, June 28 (ACN)
The Havana-based Biological and Pharmaceutical Products
Enterprise (LABIOFAM) has begun producing over 1 thousand
tons of biofertilizers and other biological agents to
contribute to the Cuban agriculture sector’s strategy aimed
at replacing imports and decreasing the use of chemicals.
In a recent press
conference LABIOFAM senior specialist Yordanis Peña
Alvarez said that her company’s contribution will help
decrease imports of
biological products between 10 and 15 percent, Granma daily
newspaper
reported.
Meanwhile, the director of the Cuban Vegetable Health
Institute Emilio
Fernandez stressed the effectiveness of biopesticides,
which are also
included in the production program, while biofertilizers
help increase
agricultural yield by some 40 percent and they also improve
the quality of
soils.
The work of LABIOFAM Enterprise is marked by intense and
significant
research and production of biological and pharmaceutical
products over the
past 20 years. At present, the institution meets 98 percent
of the
country’s demand of veterinary products.
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