Intensified Recovery Actions in Cuban Agriculture

The Ministry of Agriculture intensifies the recovery efforts in the Cuban eastern after the great damages caused by Hurricane Mathiew to this sector.

In the case of cocoa and coffee they are working in cleaning the areas, recovering the less affected plants, the renewal pruning in crops that are less than 10 years and the replacement of the remaining, as well as in promoting nursery, stated today the Delegation of Agriculture in this province.

In cocoa, whose reproduction by graft makes the renovation works more complicated, the efforts are continued to give an emerging and fast solution, told to Prensa Latina Fernando Stranded, official of that entity.

They are both shade-grown crops and more than 80 percent of the trees were destroyed by the winds, so an emergency program of temporary shade was implemented with the use of plants as the higuereta and bananas, a crop that will serve in the short term as food.

We are harvesting all the dry coconut to use it as seed and the remaining will be delivered to the industry for local food production, but this is a crop that along with cacao, will take some time to fully recovery. They are the most affected especially in Baracoa, leading producer of both, he said.