CAMAGÜEY. - The Camagüey’s branch of the Cuban Association of Animal Production (ACPA) is recognized at country level for executing strategies directed to improve the genetic preserves and for encouraging the cattle culture through actions of training in order to increase the production of milk and meat.
The Doctor of Sciences Redimo Pedraza Olivera, of the University of Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz (UC) socializes in several units the results of his investigation “Beginning for the sustainable production of bovine milk”, in which he proposes tactics to supervise the correct development of the herds.
As the specialist specified, by means of the use of local resources, the alternative food and the use of the wild-sheperd systems to mitigate the caloric stress in the cattle, indicators of efficiency that reverberate in the composition and quality of the milk are achieved.
Also the above-mentioned organization stands out in the province for carrying out studies for the characterization of the natural resources in a farm, the use of bio-prepared products in the areas of sowing of animal food and the execution of practices of conservation and technological innovation.
In the determination for contributing to the imports replacement, the Camagüey’s branch of the ACPA executed in the year that concludes several programs directed to strengthen the work of the societies of specialized producers, to reach the development of the preserves of genetic reservation.
As juventudrebelde.cu site alludes, the genetic preserves are specialized farms whose objective is the protection of the indigenous and Creole, animal genetic resources that mostly were brought by the Spanish, or that have remained many years in the country and have adapted themselves to our conditions.
These facilities, added Martínez González, also allowed us to exercise the control of those stockbreeders who break or deliver of intermittent form, and so to be able to take actions against them.
The Camagüey province will culminate this 2018 with the best milk delivery to the industry from the year 1990, date in which they promoted to the number of 92 million liters of milk.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez