Matanzas prepares for livestock control exercise.

From March 1st of this year, the agricultural system will carry out a special control action that will provide a characterization of the current situation of the livestock sector in Cuba in order to ensure the rational use of land and encourage food production.

The joint work to control the possession, use and legality of land and livestock is in response to the agreements reached by the National Assembly of People’s Power in its inspection of the organization.

The Ministry of Agriculture together with the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior will carry out this control.

According to Yudith Almeida Nuñez, head of the Department of Livestock Registry of the Minag, before February the 29th, all natural and legal owners of livestock must update in the livestock registry their herd movement, since the control will be carried out against the livestock mass that the producer has registered in that registry.

According to Raúl Rábalo Martínez, legal representative of the municipal delegation of agriculture of Matanzas, the purpose of the exercise is to control the possession, use and legality of the lands in correspondence with the production lines of the same based on their characterization and in accordance with the provisions of the legislation in force.

The specialist also explained that the purpose of the control is to obtain more updated information on the stock of livestock (cattle, horses and buffalo), as well as the characterization of producers, owners and hired workers in the livestock sector.

This will contribute to updating the Livestock Registry and to the sustained increase in production, as well as to the reduction of idle areas and those that are poorly exploited.

In this sense, since January, the registry of the municipality of Matanzas has been preparing for the exercise and it was indicated that each owner had until February 15th to register and deregister his herd in the 49 registries of the province.

From that date on, the livestock registries only carry out operations of purchase and sale between private individuals, declaration of births, deaths, theft, slaughter and slaughterhouse.

The province of Matanzas has 17,128 landowners and more than 9,000 livestock farmers with a herd of more than 260,000 animals. After March 1st, these figures will be updated.

Written by Yunielys Moliner Isasi.