Cuban President Visits Cuba-Vietnam Rice Project

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, is visiting today areas of the Los Palacios Grain Agroindustrial Company, where a joint project with Vietnam for rice production is being executed.

Accompanied by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Organization Secretary of the Central Committee, and the highest provincial authorities, he arrived at Lot 10 of the Cubanacán Base Business Unit, where approximately 170 hectares have been planted and are now ready for harvest.

Since late 2024, the Vietnamese private enterprise Agri VMA has obtained 1,000 hectares in usufruct for cereal production in Los Palacios, an experience that was consolidated last year and even extended to the Caribe area in the municipality of Consolación del Sur.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez exchanged views with representatives from the Vietnamese and Cuban enterprises and learned that overall in Pinar del Río, 8,976 hectares of rice are planted, of which 810 correspond to the project.