 Héctor Silva has taught his sons to be cattle ranchers. |
La Posta is a community in the municipality of Majibacoa full of pastures, cattle, and crops, of peasants who make a monument to the furrow, the cowsheds, and the paddocks.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- It is difficult to find empty land there. In each of the pieces that make up the place, there are producers completely devoted to the hard life of the field, defying the sun and the rain, getting up long before dawn, and working shifts at nightfall to avoid robbery.
In this challenging struggle, the Silva García family is the protagonist. On their cattle ranch, father Héctor Silva and his two sons, Héctor de Jesús and Fernando de Jesús Silva García, give no respite to the weather, and their cattle grow healthy because of the love with which they are treated, hence the high volumes of milk and meat they deliver each year to the State.
The two boys went one day to fulfill Active Military Service, although in different stages, both, when they concluded their preparation in the army, received the option of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR by its acronym in Spanish) to obtain idle land in usufruct, and as the land calls they returned to the house where they were born and enlarged the extension of the farm and increased the cattle mass.
 Héctor de Jesús Silva García is proud to be a farmer. |
"I feel good here with the family, we all work together and I am very encouraged by the usufruct land that was given to me by the FAR. In these years there have been many benefits and that was always my dream and a line I had since I was a child and today I feel very proud to be a farmer".
Fernando de Jesús is very restless, perhaps because he is 24 years old. He is always on some task on the farm, and when he has some free time, he goes fishing at a dam.
"My life is cattle ranching. I feel satisfied because, like my brother, I always meet the milk plans, and when I'm working with cows and calves, my time goes by without realizing it. When I'm milking, no one can get my foot in the door. I'm fast, I have great agility in that job," and he looks at his father, who nods and ponders what he says.
The father, Héctor Silva, is a noble and wise man when it comes to cattle breeding because he puts his knowledge into practice to define the breeds destined for meat and milk, with the preservation of only one male in each case to maintain the purity of the mass.
"We decided to go into cattle breeding because we like it. I work very closely with my children, like a cooperative. I have taught them everything I know from the years I have been doing this, and I feel proud of them, because besides being good people, they are excellent cattlemen, and I have to work hard with them."
This is a family that from humility and dedication to what they do, gives their contribution to the livestock of this province, with the production of milk and meat that they deliver to the State for the benefit of the population.
