HAVANA.- (ACN) The eastern province of Santiago de Cuba has received modern agricultural machinery benefiting the bean cultivation which is one of the main priorities of the food production in the country.

The new technology, concentrated in the Laguna Blanca Company in the municipality of Contramaestre and the territory’s main production center offers services to 15 agricultural structures among them cooperatives of the private and state farmers.

Cultivation machinery, tractors and carriages, integral fumigators support the bean and corn production with irrigation systems like the 29 central pivot machinery which also favors crops of green and root vegetables.

Roberto Hardy, director of the entity explained that the best prices given to farmers for their products and technologies promote production and supply the raw material for animal feed as well as the availability of beans for the family basket.

The specialist added that the exploitation of the machinery is very much appreciated in the productive base because it humanizes the cultivation, improves efficiency and considerably reduces the cost of recollection, compared with the previously used methods.

After rotating the planting areas with corn, beans are planted once again in order to give better use to the land and reduce costs in terms of fertilizers and pesticides, he stressed.

The producers which are responsible for the population’s food obtained this year over one ton of beans per hectare, superior to the previous year.

This development corresponds to the necessary improvement in the countryside, found in the Economic and Social Policies of the Cuban Communist Party.

As a result, the crops grow today thanks to tractors and seeding machinery, irrigation and relations with other entities that enrich the production.

In the Juventud del Futuro Basic Unit of Cooperative Production planted 78 hectares of the species called Buenaventura, Delicia and Negro and its manager Agustin Gody said that the success lies in planting in the first cycle to guarantee the development of the crops.

Some 750 land leasers occupy almost four thousand hectors of the Laguna Blanca Entity. They are dedicated to this crop because in addition to its good soil, the country needs an increase in food production.