Cuban vice president calls for strengthening municipal productive systems

Camagüey, November 13 (RHC)-- Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, advocated for the strengthening of the productive systems of the municipalities, so that they are more sovereign in decision-making and in the execution of their own strategies for economic and social development. 

The leader placed special emphasis on each demarcation being able to achieve food self-sufficiency without depending on imported resources, and at the same time increase the offers to the population, in times of economic limitations.

The new structure of the municipal and provincial governments to be implemented by the country in the coming years, endorsed in Decrees 69 and 72 of this year, is mainly focused on these objectives, and Valdés Mesa analyzed the preparations with officials of the Administration Council of the capital city of Camagüey and the Government at the territorial level.

With the presence of Lilian González Rodríguez, second head of the Department of Attention to Local Bodies of People's Power in the Council of Ministers, Valdés Mesa remarked the need to prepare the people involved regarding the decrees, in view of the implementation of the new structures, planned in two stages. These, he said, are intended to make the administrations of local bodies stronger, hence the importance of training those who will be in charge of each position or department, among other positions.

The Cuban municipality is urgent to have its own productive system and to consolidate it in terms of the local economy, therefore, it must make a thorough study of its resources and set goals in order to overcome the results, reflected the Cuban leader.

The member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) learned about one of the experiences in search of greater food production that is advancing in the municipality of Minas, located about 30 kilometers from this city, where they promote the breeding of rustic hens of the breed known as turquino, which reproduce and provide eggs in an easier way.

In addition, the Rafael Guerra Vives business unit of the Camagüey Poultry Enterprise, through the collective labor modality, includes in that site the development of other animals and species, including rabbits, guanajos, quails and tilapias, through the use of land adjacent to the aforementioned poultry entity.

The Cuban Vice President was accompanied by Federico Hernández Hernández, member of the Central Committee of the PCC and first secretary in Camagüey, and Yoseily Góngora López, governor, as well as directors of the poultry industry in the territory, to whom Valdés Mesa indicated to advance in the proposed purposes and expand the areas for the breeding of rustic hens, and in the shortest possible time to supply eggs to the People's Council of Redención and then to the municipality.