Cuban farmer denounces that the government pays for rice at very low prices: "It doesn't account"

The farmer Gilberto Hurtado Bonilla denounced that in the province of CienfuegosThe regime buys the rice it produces at very low prices, making it difficult to harvest one of the most important foods for Cubans, official media reported this Tuesday.

The owner of the El Aguacate farm, in the municipality of Abreus, explained that the current prices “are altered” and that “he doesn't realize it,” according to a report broadcast by theCuban Television.

In relation to this, he pointed out thatthe regime paid him only 4,700 pesos for the cereal delivered at the end of the spring campaign.

However, he explained that he must pay 1,000 pesos if he takes a man to work in the morning: “Fangueo (plowing or tilling flooded land) is today 1,500 pesos, planting is 1,500 pesos and if you are going to irrigate liquid you have to pay for the backpack at 200 pesos".

Furthermore, the farmer emphasized that there is a lack of control with payments because "they take the rice and you never know when they will get paid, and the guajiro needs money in hand," thus denouncing thatThe regime's policies, far from encouraging, discourage producers.

“They should have raised the price a little because reallyThe farmer cannot subsidize the rice that the people eat”, lamented this farmer who must fight daily with the lack of resources and government bureaucracy.

Hurtado said that, when he has the inputs, he manages to produce about five tons of rice on his farm. However, due to the currentshortage, barely manages to obtain a ton of the grain.

He pointed out that they do not have enoughcombustible that they assign and that theblackouts They also limited the yield, since "if you are not constantly watering the crops, the land dries out."

In the last harvest he was only able to deliver 10 quintals of rice out of the 15 he harvested; The other five were reserved for domestic consumption, he noted.

The obstacles imposed by the regime on rice producers are repeated in several territories of Cuba.

At the beginning of the month, the Cuban government admitted that without having enough fuel or fertilizeraims to recover the rice program in the province of Granma, marked in recent years by a gradual decrease in its productive volumes.

Edisnel González Valdés, director of the Fernando Echenique Agroindustrial Grain Company, explained that in the planted areas they had herbicides, insecticides and part of the fungicides, although he acknowledged that at that time they did not have all the fertilizer they needed, the official newspaper reported.Granma.

The director of the entity revealed that the program to revive grass cultivation is also affected by “the complex situation with fuel and the availability of urea”, the latter an essential source of nitrogen to fertilize plants.

The regime makes up for its inability to implement effective policies that promote rice recovery in these regions with donations from countries related to the dictatorship.

Recently,Vietnam announced the donation of 1,640 tons of rice to Cuba during the XLI Session of the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Scientific-Technical Collaboration between Vietnam and Cuba, held the previous week.