Sago growing is recommended to be interspersed with corn

Recently, the main leaders of the Calixto Sarduy agricultural production cooperative (CPA), in the municipality of Las Tunas, explained to the Provincial Committee of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) about some of the productions they carry out in their mini-industry.

Las Tunas Territorial Division for Fuels Commercialization (CUPET)

Seeing them come and go in and out with their work uniforms or full of grease is very common. They laugh and tell stories among themselves; they are made of steel, because that is what their work is all about, making new parts, fixing broken ones, innovating, and welding. The workers in the workshops of the base business unit of the Territorial Fuel Marketing Division (CUPET in Spanish) are men who for a long time have remained anonymous.

IRES project is implemented in 66 entities, including agricultural production and credit and service cooperatives, basic cooperative production units, and others.

Three years after its inception, in the province of Las Tunas the results of the Increasing Climate Resilience of Households and Rural Communities through the Rehabilitation of Productive Landscapes in Selected Localities of the Republic of Cuba (IRES) project are beginning to be seen.

Las Tunas participants in 14th Convention on Environment and Development

The appreciation of experts from the Provincial Meteorological Center of Las Tunas on the repercussions on the ecosystem due to the explosion at the Matanzas Supertanker Base and the fires in the mountainous area of Pinares de Mayarí (Holguín) focus the observations they presented in the 14th International Convention on Environment and Development.

Zenaida Álvarez Arencibia takes charge of the garden in her cooperative
Zenaida Álvarez Arencibia takes charge of the garden in her cooperative.

The voices of Moraima, Nersa, Zenaida, and other women who are leading the work in the field in the eight municipalities of Las Tunas are part of the experiences presented by the Agricultural Intercooperation Support Project (APOCOOP), at the First International Symposium on Cooperatives.