Varadero airport bets on food production.
Corn, cucumber and other crops are harvested in areas supported by men and women at the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, where the food production program is advancing.
Corn, cucumber and other crops are harvested in areas sustained by men and women of the Juan Gualberto Gómez International Airport, the second most important terminal in the country, where the food production program is advancing.
According to the institutional account on the social network X, the collective joins the others that in the province of Matanzas harvest land to be self-sufficient in agricultural products, or at least improve the offers in workers’ canteens and sell to its working population.
Frequently analyzed in the meetings of the Secretariat of the Provincial Committee of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), the important monthly meeting of the organization, it is not casual the preeminence of food production in the organic process 22nd Congress, now in its municipal stage.
In those spaces, the need for each enterprise to grow what it is going to eat, in the style of the Varadero airport, an exception that has not yet become the rule, has provoked heated debates.
For this reason, the CTC in the province is determined to continue demanding from the administrative directorates the request of idle lands to convert them into self-consumption, especially if we take into account that the province has an available fund of 18,482 hectares and, until recently, only 7,694 hectares had been processed.
A report recently discussed at the Secretariat attests to the increase of 140 entities with usufruct land; however, only eight applications have been received so far this year.
To encourage food production, the CTC and its unions created the political movement Mi Colectivo Aporta, already palpable in work centers such as the Juan Gualberto Gómez airport.
Inaugurated on September 25, 1989 by Comandante Fidel Castro, this grassroots business unit is an example for its economic results and social commitment.
Photos: Taken from the Varadero airport’s X account.
Written by Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.
