NUEVITAS, CAMAGÜEY. - Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and melons are four basic productions that guarantee every year 28 houses of protected croops belonging to the Managerial Unit of Base (UEB) The Flowers, in the direction of the hotels located in the tourist spa of Saint Lucia, in the north coast of Camagüey.

With 14 years of development, the houses of Israeli technology support their cultivation from January until December, although from June to August, they reduce their results for the intense heat that characterizes this summer stage in the country.

As Mariano Rodríguez Partido, chief of the UEB, informed to Adelante Digital the okra and the eggplant joins to the four fundamental lines, which are cultivated in the semi-protected areas near the houses.

The administrative leader explained that in addition they achieve at present to 101 per cent the productive commitments, which are commercialized through the companies Select Fruit and Citrícola Sola. Results that affect positively the salary of the workpeople, who divide equally 800 pesos in national currency per month.

Regla Garcel Palmero, chief of production, informed that they have already a new system of irrigation, with salvers for the promotion of the young plants. They also have the material that they need for the replacement of the current covering, but the repair have not been done because part of the metallic structure is in very bad conditions and till now the country have not been able to acquire it.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez