CAMAGÜEY.- In order to accomplish the necessary increase in the milk and meat production volumes and the progressive recovery of the livestock in Camaguey, it is urgent that the farmers associated to the Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCS), and the main owners of beef cattle in the territory increase the application of artificial insemination.
By the end of the first semester, the farmer sector only fertilize, using this technique, the 25 per cent of the females in their herd, far from the planned 40 per cent. This result influenced negatively by having the province delivering only 95 thousand 254 cows, which represents 38 percent of the whole bulk.
To reverse this situation, the provincial Office of the Agriculture Ministry is leading the implementation of the Integrated System of Attention for Reproduction, which boosts, among other actions, the training of qualified personnel in the different territories, still insufficient.
The cryogenic thermos allows to storage the bovine semen pills frozzen for later insemination.
Nowadays, in Camaguey there are 203 insemination technicians: 97 working with the State Basic Comapany Units (UEB) involved in Reproduction and Veterinary and 106 form the productive bases. It is foreseen to spread the training of technicians in the last semester in the municipalities of Florida, Vertientes, Jimaguayú, Sibanicú and in the Rectangle Company.
The goal set in the genetic programme is to finish the year with 52 per cent of the cattle in the province inseminated, which would involve an increase in the CCS rates, besides an increase in the UEB, the Cooperative Production Basic Units and the Farming Production Cooperatives.
Some of the advantages provided by artificial insemination in livestock consist in the genetic improvement, the best utilization of the male, allows the control of venereal deseases (Vibrions and Trichomoniasis) by preventing the natural intercourse, there can be a more strict control of the wombs and allows the use of bulls even after they are dead, same with foreign bulls, which would be impossible to use any other way.