Artemisa, Cuba - The first vice-president of the Councils of State and Ministers, Salvador Valdés Mesa checks in Artemisa the progress of the different programs of the agriculture sector in an exchange with the main political and administrative authorities of the territory.

Valdés Mesa calls to produce food with greater efficiency and obtain from the ground the best benefit as an alternative to the intensification of the US blockade against Cuba. He is interested in the corn planting strategy to replace imports.

Translated by Lorenzo Raúl Alonso López