The impulse of the Natural and Traditional Medicine Program (MNT, in Spanish) in the province of Las Tunas is based on a new strategy in the production and commercialization processes, and the trust in advanced agricultural producers.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The actions lie in some linkage opportunities between this territory and the neighboring province of Granma, an alliance that has allowed the Biological and Pharmaceutical Laboratories (LABIOFAM) business group in Las Tunas to stabilize the presence of demanded products in its sales network and extend to the pharmaceutical service.

Rodrigo Acosta Morales, deputy director of LABIOFAM in Las Tunas, indicated to the Cuban News Agency that, through the Medicines Marketing Company (Emcomed) of the BioCubaFarma Group, Mieleos and Flormag are currently being produced and sold, both belonging to the group of anticatarrhal.

While with the Medilip Company, from Granma, LABIOFAM Las Tunas achieves the presence these days of important preparations such as eucalyptus, lemongrass, aloe vera, and weeping paperbark, of great acceptance among the population, which little by little has been gaining in the culture of the importance of green medicine, he pointed out.

In addition, the insertion of leading peasants in the MNT program is notable; such is the case of Eugenio Pérez Almaguer, who after positioning himself among the most prominent producers of citrus and fruit trees in the country, now promotes the planting and harvesting of various species.

At the Los Cocos farm, owned by Pérez Almaguer in the northern municipality of “Jesús Menéndez,” one hectare has now been added in usufruct so that the peasant can achieve the proliferation of lemongrass, linden, aloe, oregano, mint, garlic, and onion.

Similarly, guava, considered one of Eugenio's star postures due to the possibility of promoting 600,000 postures per year of this fruit; is also among those with the highest demand within the natural program for the production of talc and tinctures.