VERTIENTES, CAMAGÜEY. - The development of approximately 20 research projects and their generalization in the agricultural chore of the province, validate the selection of the Station of Investigations of Grains in Vertientes to begin the annual balance of the work of the scientific centers of the agrarian branch in Camagüey.

The results of this group concentrate on the investigative works in 10 varieties of bean and its genetic improvement to establish a seed that would be possible to validate in the country and that would be obtained in the entity.

There join the programs destined to raise the yields for hectares and the water saving in the cultivation of rice, corn, sorghum, soybean and peanut, experiments that show encouraging results in the climatic conditions of the province.

With 62 workers, the station achieves also at the end of the year the evaluation of diverse herbicides for the pest control and illnesses with less pollutant doses for the environment.

The scientific level reached by the agricultural group of investigators of this center of sciences, the labor performance, the contribution to the development of the basic grains in the province and the country, as well as the extension activities developed in the Camagüey’s municipalities, they validated the selection of the unit to celebrate the provincial activities for the day of the science in 2019.

  • Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez