Currently, the crops of grains and vegetables occupy the main spaces of the sugar workers in the province of Holguín after concluding the 2020-21 harvest on the basis of increasing their contributions within the areas of this sector to the municipal programs of food sovereignty.

Under the commitment to ensure the main demands for the self-consumption of the workers' collectives of this branch and to support the offers in some 90 communities annexed to its agro-industrial entities, this sector works in the sowing of just over two thousand hectares of different productions during the current spring campaign, which started in March and will last until next August.

The commitment is showing positive indicators in this endeavor, said Aramis Salgado Rodríguez, specialist in various crops of the agricultural group of the provincial sugar company, whose forces have sufficient ready land and the indispensable means for the insertion of the areas planned for the different crops, mainly banana, yucca and sweet potato.

Likewise, of the total area scheduled to be planted in the stage, he pointed out, over 1,400 hectares are already under cultivation, an indicator that shows the real possibilities of exceeding the campaign plan, which includes among its priorities, in addition to vegetables, bean crops and corn.

The contribution of the sugar company in this respect is essentially concentrated towards the population settled in popular councils of the five municipalities where the sugar cane structures lie, that is Urbano Noris, Fernando de Dios and López-Peña plants, located in Báguano, as well as Loynaz Hechavarría, from Cueto and Cristino Naranjo, from Cacocum.

By listing the most comprehensive groups in their contributions to food production within the branch in the Holguín territory, Salgado explained the contributions traditionally made by the Cooperativa de Producción Cañera 26 de Julio, from Banes, which is fully self-sufficient with the products needed for its workers, including edible oil, made from sesame processing within its own mini-industry, one of the most comprehensive of that structure in the eastern province.

Projects to expand the areas of food crops within the sugar agroindustry, which has about eight thousand workers, will be progressively extended to areas where there are potentially greater possibilities of taking advantage of irrigation systems, as one of the essential bases to increase agricultural yields per hectare.