Between 10 and 40 percent of potato crops have been affected in the month of April in Ciego de Ávila, due to excess humidity caused by rains;the local newspaper reportedInvader.
Raúl Monguía Rodríguez, specialist in the provincial delegation of Agriculture in the cultivation of this food, reported that the harvest has been carried out on 380.7 hectares (ha), which represents 34 percent of the total planted, and that in About 6,620 tons (t) were collected in that area. A figure that represents yields of 17.4 tons per hectare, lower than planned, which was 19.8.
The official indicated that to accelerate the collection in Ciego de Ávila, from Mayabeque, Cienfuegos and Villa Clara, 10 operators are moving with their harvesting machines with tractors and that, with this equipment, as soon as the conditions of the fields allow it, they will basically be activated. where there are larger planted areas.
Such areas correspond to the La Cuba Agricultural Companies, with 250 hectares; and Arnaldo Ramírez, with 185; and the El Mambí Base Business Unit (UEB), with 167 hectares.
Monguía Rodríguez specified that since Saturday the harvest work was resumed in the Paquito González and Revolución de Octubre Agricultural Production Cooperatives, and in a part of the UEB El Mambí, and that it is expected that personnel mobilized from the municipalities of Primero de Enero, Baraguá and the provincial capital.
According to the official media, the potato planting ended on January 27, more than 20 days late, due to the rains of October and November 2021, which hindered the work of preparing the soil, and the entry late fertilizer and imported seed.
Last February, the Cuban governmentissued a resolution that doubled the retail sale price of potatoes, taking into account the expenses involved in its cultivation and storage. From three pesos a pound it cost went to five pesos (in the case of fresh potatoes) and six pesos (in the case of those preserved in the refrigerator).
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