NUEVITAS, CAMAGÜEY. - Almost 500 hectares will be sowed with tomato in the current campaign of cold, production that will be assigned to the industry, fundamentally, and to the social consumption.

Hernando Gutiérrez, the director of the Agricultural Company, informed that they have the necessary insurances to guarantee the success of the tomato harvest if the climatological conditions are favorable.

According to the historical indicators, the Strengthened Credit and Services Cooperatives (CCS) Raúl Hernández and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in the Popular Council of Camalote, are those of major yields in this cultivation.

The harvest of the tomato helps to replace imports to the country and generates large benefits for the farmers of the municipality, nevertheless, the authorities of Nuevitas call the peasants to promote the diversification in the productions to avoid losses like suffered at the beginning of this year, when the rains took to the defeat the campaign.