Peasant from Camagüey does not take his feet out of the furrow

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In the Santa Teresa farm, one of 119 recovered from the so-called green ring of the city of Camagüey, there is a sense of belonging, where its advanced producer Ariel Santana Estrada is convinced that his contribution contributes to improving the people’s nutrition
Peasant from Camagüey does not take his feet out of the furrow
Photo: Prensa Latina

Camagüey, Cuba, Aug 6th.- Optimism, the desire to move forward and hard work are the keys to achieving better yields in agriculture, according to Ariel Santana Estrada, associate of the Manuel Piti Fajardo Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), from the Triángulo Tres Company.

This advanced producer from the Santa Teresa farm speaks, in Guajiro style, without half measures, with the morality of someone who is in the furrow every day and sees the effort in every bit of 11 caballerías of various crops and three of livestock, all under the care of his daughter, wife and friends who work the land.

In a short time, he managed to change the panorama from an area infested with marabou and today a green place with cassava fields, with support for the entire year, as well as melon, pumpkin, potato and banana, and prospects for increasing crops.

His pride is evident when he talks about the time he spends in the fields, how he talks to the plants, about new ideas and projects, the support of the authorities of his company and agriculture, because even in the midst of current conditions he always count on that help.

His joy is evident because he perceives the result of so much effort, and he covets so many other plans, while he assures that this is what it means to not be complacent when the feeding of the people depends on his hands.

The benefits of production are many and the different destinations such as collection, social consumption in hospitals, children in homes without family protection, day care centers, and sales at fairs attest to this.

“There cannot be a deviation here and it is not fulfilled, it is over-fulfilled”, he added.

In the case of cassava, it achieved a yield of thirteen tons per hectare, and the potato harvested eighty percent of the total crop that was delivered to the care centers for the most part.

In the Santa Teresa farm, one of 119 recovered from the so-called green ring of the city of Camagüey, there is a sense of belonging, where its advanced producer Ariel Santana Estrada is convinced that his contribution contributes to improving the people’s nutrition.

(Radio Cadena Agramonte)