Turiguanó Genetics Livestock Company confirms its potentialities

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Empresa Pecuaria Genética Turiguanó confirma sus potencialidades

The search for alternatives for animal feeding, in the face of the prolonged drought, enables the workers of the Turiguanó Genetics Livestock Company to maintain the vitality of the livestock mass to fulfill the state commission to improve the Santa Gertrudis cattle breed, obtain stallions and produce beef.

Yamila Bautista Poll, deputy director of that entity, told the Portal of Ciego de Ávila´s Citizen that, in the face of the climatic shocks, the herds' food needs are supplied with the stored resources and the acquisition of products in the Collection Company of Livestock Production: El Vaquerito, from the municipality of Morón”.

For the current year, the strengthening of the infrastructure designed to guarantee the nutrition of the animals is foreseen, with the installation of an irrigation system for the cultivation of grasses that cover the demands throughout the year and allow to face the deficit in the period of drought intensification.

It is added to this the preparation of 15 hectares for the sowing of protein plants and the strengthening of working ties with the Institute of Animal Science to obtain food.

During a visit to the company, Reina Torres Pérez, deputy and member of the Agri-Food Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power, also confirmed the efforts to ensure the nutrition of the 145 workers, by promoting a self-sufficiency program, by planting plots with yucca, corn, banana, tomato, cucumber and beet. This initiative favors the decrease in the cost of food for workers in the entity, which does not exceed 7.00 pesos a day.

When evaluating the impact of the Ordering Task, Torres Pérez verified the readjustments in the payment systems of the five base business units and the updating of the cost sheets of all the products, activities to which specialists from the University were integrated, the Cuban Association of Economists and the Provincial Delegation of MINAG.

The deputy to the ANPP was also interested in the company's categorization process and received information on the behavior of sales to Tourism, affected as a result of the decrease in visitors to the Jardines del Rey tourist destination, in the context of the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the disagreements of customers in this sector (hotel and non-hotel facilities) with the new prices.

In 2020, the area where the company is located remained in quarantine for 74 days, due to the transmission of COVID-19, which had a negative impact on the dynamics of production, from the closure of the slaughterhouse and the reorganization of the work in the units, however, it was possible to readjust the annual plan and comply with it to 98%.

During the health contingency period, sales were made to the Municipal Directorate of Commerce and Gastronomy to market food products to the population of the Turiguanó Popular Council.

 

Empresa Pecuaria Genética Turiguanó confirma sus potencialidades

"The entity has managed to diversify with the production of charcoal, for which it has a benefit warehouse and provides the installation of electrical equipment, conditions that will facilitate increasing the manufacture of this exportable ruble," Daniel Rodríguez López, director of Technique and Development, said.

The Turiguanó Genetic Cattle is inserted in the Mariel Development Zone and there are projections for the establishment of contracts with Treew Inc., a Canadian company with vast experience and deep understanding of international trade, which has been doing business with Cuba for more than 15 years, in various branches.