Improved plantations from the implementation of science and technology, and a productive increase of more than 100 tons, show progress in the coffee development program in the mountains of Guisa, one of the municipalities with the highest impact in the grain harvest in the eastern province of Granma.

Favored by investments and technology, both from the Cuban and through collaborative projects with Vietnam and Italy, the initiative has allowed the transformation of 1,744 of the 2,747 hectares dedicated to cultivation, according to data until the end of the 2018.

Leonel Guevara, general director of the Batalla de Guisa Agroforestry Enterprise, explained that among the benefits are technical nurseries for the production of postures, pulping, a shelling mill, quality mini-laboratories, a training classroom, two irrigation systems and means of transport.

In this month, he said, some 400 new hectares of land will be recovered to coffee cultivation and food sowing in the Macanacú area.

However, the yields in the coffee harvest are still very low, just at 0.16 tons per hectare (t / h), lower than the national average of (0.23), and therefore they will continue committed to the introduction of science and technology, stressed the manager.

He added that to reach the ton per hectares, 70 percent of the planting in the next year 2020 will be carry out by graft technique and more organic matter, which favors the growth, development and productivity of coffee.

Incorporated into a collaborative project with Vietnam, the Oscar Martínez Basic Cooperative Production Unit, of Los Corrales community, shows results over of 0.11 to 1 t / h in renewed coffee plantations, its administrator Carmelo Almeida, noted.

The management rules are fulfilled systematically and carefully, among them pruning, fertilization, soil conservation and fault replacement; very different from how they worked before, he added.

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