Artemisa, Cuba -The Strengthened Cooperative of Credit and Services “Ubaldo Díaz Fuentes” in the municipality of Güira de Melena in the province of Artemisa works to achieve the 6.7 hectares of potatoes planted this year, which represents 150 tones of the crop.

According to the information given by Yosvany Valderrama, specialist of the tuber in the Agricultural Company of the territory, in this cooperative they have one producer only dedicated to working with this crop (the potato), who has received all required inputs, according to the vegetative cycle of the crop, for which they used seeds from Europe.

The producer has its own machinery and with specialized services from the agricultural entity of the locality, including heavy equipment. The harvest will starts in late March and the purpose of the productions will be to distribute them among fresh consumption of the population and the tourism.

Translated by Lorenzo Raúl Alonso López