Artemisa, Cuba - Associates in Waldo Díaz Fuentes CPA in Güira de Melena township, thanks their high yields in potato planting and harvesting to the Agricultural Bases Project for Local Food Sustainability (BASAL), by having a JJ Broch seeder, used both in previous seasons, and ready for the coming month to cut 40 hectares more.

The device , from the European Union, sows in optimal conditions up to 10 hectares in eight hours a day with only three workers, while traditional technology advances two hectares in a day, with 11 workers in the manual process , while some sow, others rectify, explained Joansed Sedano, head of machinery in the CPA.

Sedano says that J.J Broch seeder works with about 20 quintals on top, saves seeds and performs the continuous process at an exact distance, which favors plant development and promotes higher yields when harvesting.

In addition to being the only one of its kind in the province and perhaps in the country, it stands out by its significant work humanization, because workers are neither exposed directly to the sun, rain or dust, nor work bended in the furrow.

Among the experiences, we can mention along with financial savings and human capital, innovation in the planting of crops such as malanga colacasia and sweet potato, with good yields and services provided in Alquízar, San Antonio de los Baños and Artemisa in cold seasons, in the potato especially, with the only cost of the operator's payment and the tractor fuel costs of the tractor, Sedano explains.

Waldo Díaz has received through BASAL, among other benefits for productivity-yield combination , a seeder of yucca that fertilizes, stings, sows and covers the crop, a grain seeder, and a potato harvester.

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