CAMAGÜEY.- The Provincial Act on May 17, the Peasant’s Day, was staged on Tuesday the agricultural productive cooperative (CPA) Jesús Suárez Gayol, of this municipality of Camagüey.

In the meeting, chaired by Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, First secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in Camagüey, several men and women were recognized with five, ten, 15 and 20 years as leaders of the sector with good performance.

The national avant-garde condition was also delivered to 13 groups, three of them from the provincial capital: the credit and service cooperatives José Antonio Echeverría and Renato Guitar Rosell and the CPA Jesús Suárez Gayol.

The meeting served to recognize the work in 2018 of the cooperatives and peasants of the municipalities of Jimaguayu, Nuevitas, Sierra de Cubitas, Florida and Camagüey.

At the end, Aida Díaz Figueredo, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in the province, said that members of the organization will continue to strive to increase food production for the people.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez