CAMAGÜEY.- With every germination parameter certified by specialized laboratories, the Base Business Unit (UEB, Spanish acronym) Semillas Camagüey currently has a total commercial coverage for their products, which are destined for the planting in the current cold season and other agrarian uses.

The main lines are beans in its two variants, red and black, and within the vegetables the tomato for salad and industrial processing, commented to the Cuban news Agency Elba Estela Peláez Hernández, commercial specialist of the referred entity.

The seeds can be delivered to every producer through a previous hiring through the Cooperatives of Credit and Services (CCS), and the Cooperatives of Agrarian Production (CPA, Spanish acronym) and also through the Agrarian Municipality Companies, although we have five specialized stores in Sierra de Cubitas, Florida, Camalote, and two in the provincial capital for general population, explained.

Besides, through these commercial units, the acquisition for sowing in parcels, backyards and organopónicos, is easier as a part of the Program for Urban and Suburban Agriculture.

In these little areas, the main plantations are vegetables like chive, wild leek, parsley, coriander, eggplant, chili, green beans, and cucumber, as well as lettuce and tomatoes.

This is the case of the organopónico América Latina in this city, whose manager, the agricultural engineer Liset Rodríguez Santana explained that there they receive this input through the Agriculturist's Shop, that belongs to the referred program.

Every seed acquired here are certified and with a high per cent of quality, said, and they also provide service of specializes technical assistance, which favors in great measure the success of the plantations and the harvests of the unit.

Peláez Hernández also assured that every year, the logistics of those seeds are planned when making the analysis of the needs of the province, some of which are not obtained in the country, but through the importation from other countries.

About it, she quoted as an example the wild leek, chive, cabbage, beet and radish, lines impossible to obtain in Cuba because of the weather conditions in the country.

Currently, in the territory, the all the seeds destined to the planting of beans in its two varieties, as well as other six of tomato, standing out the two that are best for consumption, Celeste and Desquite, besides the seeds necessary for planting cucumber, pumpkin, green beans, papaya, and some level of pepper are being produced.

Occasionally the province of Sancti Spíritus, for national balance, tributes some volumes of pepper seeds, and Granma and Las Tunas provide pumpkin seeds, but at the same time, Camagüey facilitates for Havana cucumber seeds, and to Granma and Ciego de Ávila tomato seeds.

One of the potencialities of the referred entity is the existence of a Biofactory, which produces, for over ten years, certified seeds and postures that are resistant to climate change because of their high genetic potential, which can be used by the producers both local and national.