Today, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, deputy prime minister of Cuba, highlighted in this city the incentive that the new measures approved by the government represent to boost food production and that stimulate the exploitation of productive reserves.
Tapia Fonseca led a training seminar that became fruitful exchange with producers in the territory about the benefits that the measures that are aimed at eliminating obstacles and speeding up marketing procedures, will bring.
He stressed the importance of reaching all the productive bases with the pertinent explanation, so that each producer knows the scope of the transformations, in which 14 organisms of the Central State Administration have an impact.
He weighed the conditions of Ciego de Ávila to increase its food contributions, based on the new provisions that simplify mechanisms, since the territory has experiences and knowledge that can now be used according to the reserves that remain to be exploited.
Answering a producer's doubt, Tapia explained that the measures are also applicable in beekeeping, with the possibility of marketing the surplus after fulfilling its delivery plan.
Ydael Jesús Pérez Brito, Minister of Agriculture, detailed the transformations related to livestock and the marketing of some products, such as meat and milk, as well as the need to guarantee that the contract fulfills its function as a control and demand tool.
He said that those producers who meet the requirements of quality and food safety, will be able to sell cattle meat directly in the retail network, in pesos or foreign currency, or use it as self-consumption, once the state commission has been fulfilled and the person ensures that there is no decrease in the livestock mass.
Among the benefits aimed at unblocking the performance of the productive forces, the reduction of electricity and water rates, and the modification of the payment of personal income tax stand out.
Lourdes Rodríguez Ruiz, Vice Minister of Finance and Price, explained that the adjustments immediately seek, in addition, to incentivize the owners, recognize and stimulate the effort to produce, grow and provide meat products to the population at agreed prices.
Noel Rodríguez, president of the José Martí Credit and Service Cooperative (CCS by its Spanish initials), acknowledged that their proposals were listened to and they have already found a response in the new measures, while Martín Alonso Gómez, leader of the Reinaldo Maning CCS, highlighted the encouragement that it represents for new ventures.
The exchange included the participation of Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, president of the Provincial Defense Council, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of the territory, and other authorities linked to the agricultural sector.