SANTA CRUZ DEL SUR, CAMAGÜEY.- Many of his acquaintances came to consider them crackpots. In order to be able to realize the productive ideas had first to cut a lot of marabou.

Three cavalry in the individual initially requested by the Decree Law 259 the brothers Miguel, Yoel and Alberto Diegues Aguilera in lands of the once Batey of Palma Dos, which was located in the zone of La Cupertina, distant more than 28 kilometers of the local emporium.

The physical strength of these oblique-eyed men, adapted to rough work, has in other respects the attachment to the land, to the animals, to the crops. They speak with pride of their family and friends who did not hesitate to achieve the purpose in the Finca Las Palmas. There in every span of land there are notorious traces of effort.

Various crops, cattle and sheep breeding, breeding of pigs and birds continue to increase these peasants of the Credit and Service Cooperative (CCS) Pepito Tey.

Of the six cavalry planted with Acacia, carob, baría and oak, wood has been extracted for the construction of the homes of other producers and residents of intricate communities of the territory. Under these groves interspersed the planting of guava, tamarind, cashew and almond.

Every morning when the clock ticks all four there is only time for a zip of coffee. 28 cows start at that time to be milk, leaving them in each day of this drought stage more than 115 liters. This benefit is due to the systematic grazing of the ascending herd to 238 animals, which is supplied cane in its feeding.

Last year the three fruitful Santa Cruz’s men of the "Pepito Tey" gave the milk industry a figure of more than 28300 liters of milk. At the end of the first quarter of the current calendar had carried more than six thousand liters.

Decrees laws 300 and 358 have allowed them to win in greater amount of space to complete the 12 cavalry. Excel in the CCS in breeding fattening bulls and sales of these to the combined provincial meat center.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez