Las Tunas, Cuba.- The new technology will be set up in the Calixto Sarduy Agricultural Production Cooperative (CPA), in the community of Becerra, at about eight kilometers from this city. It will be assembled through a project funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which already has, among others, the necessary elements for laboratories.
Yonaisi Mujica Pérez, from the INCA team of researchers, told Tiempo21 digital website, belonging to "Victoria" radio station, that she will advise the territory on everything related to the production of biofertilizers because of the importance and need for the farmers of Las Tunas to have Such a productive plant.
A team of the Institute has been aware of the entire process of creating the conditions to produce the biostimulants, such as the selection of the area where the technique will be installed, the identification of the suitable type of soil or clay, focused on the reproduction of the fungi that are used to increase crop yields.
It will be very important for Las Tunas to have more resistant crops in high temperatures environments and where rains are scarce, a province victim of climate change and the driest of Cuba, with an average rainfall of 1,338 mm annually, which only has systems of irrigation in two percent of its arable land.
According to the specialist Mujica Pérez, agricultural biostimulants increase the resistance of plants to adverse climatic situations, and interact on their physiology through nutritional channels, a procedure that improves yield and quality, and contributes to the conservation of soil after harvest.
The researcher expressed that, in addition to these advantages, the new technology is a viable alternative to chemical fertilizers that are increasingly expensive and cause damage to human health.
She said that the challenge is that each territory will be able of producing biostimulants and Las Tunas is involved on that matter, with the advice of INCA specialists, located in the province of Mayabeque, where very encouraging results, mainly in the cultivation of beans, soybeans, chickpeas, and short-cycle vegetables are already palpable.
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