The Artemiseño farmer and activist Daniel Alfaro Frias He regretted the loss of his crops due to the lack of resources to tend to the crops, in the midst of the food crisis that the country is going through.
"Nothing is more sad and discouraging than seeing the crops that you managed to make with a lot of sacrifice lose, and because you don't have anything to help them with, or water them, they fall apart, they die, you simply lose the entire investment and with them the desire to move forward," the producer, a resident of Guanajay, wrote on Facebook.
Alfaro Díaz is not the only Cuban farmer who has seen his crops affected, due to the lack of fertilizers, inputs, fuel, among others.
In Ciego de Ávila, The tomato industry reduced its production in the current campaign, because the fields did not yield the number of tons per hectare that was planned.
Among the main causes identified is the price that farmers had to pay for a 20-liter bottle of fuel, which amounts to two thousand pesos in the informal market.
About 10 tons of oregano, which would be destined for the pharmaceutical industry, They got lost in a field in Granma, because there were no collection containers.
“This is a short cycle crop that is 60 days after planting and every 45 days you must make a cut. If it begins to mature, it loses its leaves, putting the harvest and obtaining medicinal products at risk,” explained a producer to the official newspaper. The Demajagua.
Added to the general crisis that the country is going through is the lack of funds to pay some farmers, who must fulfill their contracts with the Acopio state company.
The farmer Leonel Capote, resident in Artemisa, denounced a few months ago that banks do not have the necessary funds , affecting the salary of its workers and preventing them from acquiring inputs and resources.
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