Las Tunas, Cuba - After a process of dialogue in which political organizations took part, the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) and the Tabacuba Business Group in Las Tunas, more than 70 percent of tobacco growers agreed to increase their harvest, which would mean reaching 1,029 tons of tobacco next year, 13 percent more than they initially planned.
Juan Carlos Garrido, one of the farmers who agreed to try to overcome the plans already drawn up, assured that the task will not be easy: "We will take up the challenge," he said after signing the commitment along with several of his colleagues gathered at the Mayor General Vicente García González Square, in this city.
Carlos Ramon Betancourt, director of the Provincial Company for Beneficial, Collection and Tobacco Twisting in the territory, said that what was achieved in this first stage of dialogs is extremely encouraging, as the contracts signed are expected to grow by three percentage points more than what is nationally requested. So far the entity he leads contracted with local producers about one thousand 70 tons of leaf to be grown on 1,052 hectares for 2020. If the dialogue is successful, the province could harvest some 1,200 tons of tobacco next year.
The director admitted that proposing greater goals in the midst of the country's tense economic situation will require not only the will of those who sweat daily in the fields. In addition, he stressed, the support of a group of state entities will be needed: banks as financial entities, insurance companies when required by contingencies, logistics companies under the Ministry of Agriculture, who are responsible for ensuring the inputs needed for agricultural work, as well as the tobacco company itself as responsible for training.
"If we achieve the integration of all these factors, the unity in each of the actions, and put our efforts on full integration with the producers; we are sure that we can achieve the objective," he concluded.
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