Cuba turns to Aquaponics
to solve food shortages
From: CGTN America
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To move forward Cuba must look to itself
-with wisdom and a lot of effort.
Diaz-Canel and Morales Ojeda’s message during their visit to Minas de Matahambre (Pinar del Rio) and Bauta (Artemisa), Monday March 25, 2024.
Alina Perera Robbio -perera@juventudrebelde.cu
At the UBPC Los Burros (Pinar del Río) Díaz-Canel assured people that producing more food will strike a blow to inflation affecting the country. “We must look deep into the archipelago, into the land, into the intelligence of Cubans…It is there that we find the best guarantee to solve our country's demands and problems. The less we depend on imports, the stronger and more capable we will be in achieving efficiency and sovereignty.”
The above concept was the prevailing axis during the tour of Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, this Monday afternoon when he visited the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa province.
It was not by chance that in the first item on the agenda, basic business unit (UEB) in charge of the Roberto Escudero Pharmaceutical Laboratory Company – Diaz-Canel spoke about the need for “research on raw materials that we can replace" and on the “value of improving the presentation of our products” ensuring Cuban people trust in what we make in Cuba.
Marlene Dominguez Alfonso, director of the UEB, explained to the President, the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the authorities of the territory, details on the main tasks occupying the UEB, a productive entity. The year 2024 will be as complex as previous years but thanks to a group of strategies the Company and UEB follow, they will make up for the deficit of raw materials faced. Although substituting imports is not an easy task, it is an urgent one and in 2023 we were able to substitute three national raw materials (beeswax, corn starch and mint) explained Marlene, who added that such substitution saved Cuba 2.5 million pesos.
For 2024, UEB plans to venture into Natural and Traditional Medicine. “Taking into account the deficit of medicines the country has today, we are talking about a good branch, for which we have the required productive and technological capacities, and trained personnel.” Dominguez Alfonso referred with pride to the products that UEB produces today, like the gel for ultrasounds with which UEB is prioritizing the program for mother and child health. They are also repackaging bicarbonate for hemodialysis -one of the sensible products for our health sector.
The second stop on the itinerary for Bauta was the UEB responsible for dairy products Julio Antonia Mella, or as it is better known, Balkan. Instability in the supply of raw materials is having a negative impact in production, particularly in the production of milk. This challenge, that other areas in Cuba also face, requires initiative, incentives, and alternative roads if we are to fulfil demand while focusing mainly on our own strength.
The Institute of Grain Research is involved in a similar search. Diaz-Canel talked with Daysbel Toledo Diaz, director of Science, Innovation and Development of the mentioned institute. Both agreed on a strategic purpose that guarantees varieties that would increase agricultural production. “Beyond rice, corn and beans, we are working in soya, peanut and sesame seeds -oil producing plants, as well as on sorghum and legumes like chickpeas.” The work of the Institute guarantees food for people as well as animal feed. Toledo Diaz explained they try resistant varieties that adapt well to our soils and climate and exhibit good yields. He added that “our varieties are resistant and proven effective in all Cuba.”
Listening to Toledo Diaz, attentive to his sense of belonging and the extent of his knowledge and energy, we had total clarity about Cuba’s need for many engineers like him, focused on improvement and without doubts that Cuba will find its best and more sustainable riches “within itself.”
Agricultura production: a permanent challenge for Cubans.
This is not the first time Díaz-Canel shares the conviction that together we can move Cuba forward. This Monday when he arrived to the municipality of Minas de Matahambre (in Pinar del Rio), he recalled the most decisive variable in challenging times: our will, the will of human beings.
During this, his third visit this year to Pinar del Río, Diaz-Canel emphasized the need to increase production as the most direct way to reverse many of the difficulties we face in Cuba. He pointed, for example, that more food produced will deal blows to the inflation affecting everyone so much.
Reflecting on this idea at the Basic Cooperative Production Unit (UBPC) Los Burros, part of the Tobacco Collection and Processing Company, executives explained that, in spite of having closed 2023 with profits UBPC has vast potentialities to increase profits as the land is only 70% exploited. Cattle raising is what the workers want, and need, to make incursions in.
On his way through Minas de Matahambre, Díaz-Canel stopped at the Sumidero popular council to exchange with people living there: "Together we can move the country forward," he told those present.
At the Centro de Escogida v-10-66, Diaz-Canel shared his certainty that only by uniting all efforts we will be able to overcome the challenges we face. This centre belongs to the Empresa de Acopio y Beneficio del Tabaco, where the President was interested in salaries paid, profits obtained and presence of young people in the labor group.
At UEB Silvícola Forestal Sumidero, the third stop in our president itinerary, we learned that this institution ended last calendar year with few profits reason why their goal is to diversify production planting fruit trees, extracting resin and producing charcoal. There, the president spoke about how 2024 must be the year "to get up" and then to the workers -you, the workers, must have all the opportunities to discuss the process because working we will move forward.
The tour was closed with the meeting of the country's leadership with leaders of the municipality and the province, followed by an exchange between the President and the people waiting for him in the vicinity of the venue. The Head of State spoke about "compression" on the path that goes from an unfavorable situation to success, and insisted on the importance of production. To the children of Minas, the President ratified the potentialities of the Cuban people, those born from creativity.
Regarding the enemies who recently orchestrated a media attack against the Cuban Revolution, he reasoned that they dream of the disappearance of the Revolution, they are devoid of motivation and understanding.
The Head of State spoke of "understanding” the path from an unfavorable situation to success, insisting on the crucial importance of production. To the children of Minas, the President ratified the potential of the Cuban people, born from creativity.
Regarding the enemies who recently orchestrated a media attack against the Cuban Revolution, he reasoned that those who dream of the disappearance of the Revolution, are devoid of motivation and commitment to the people and its possible successes.
"We are in a complex situation, but we are going to overcome it," and he spoke again of the “we” -the word in which the key to all synergy and triumph dwells.
Cuba turns to Aquaponics
to solve food shortages
From: CGTN America
To move forward Cuba must look to itself
-with wisdom and a lot of effort.
Diaz-Canel and Morales Ojeda’s message during their visit to Minas de Matahambre (Pinar del Rio) and Bauta (Artemisa), Monday March 25, 2024.
Alina Perera Robbio -perera@juventudrebelde.cu
At the UBPC Los Burros (Pinar del Río) Díaz-Canel assured people that producing more food will strike a blow to inflation affecting the country. “We must look deep into the archipelago, into the land, into the intelligence of Cubans…It is there that we find the best guarantee to solve our country's demands and problems. The less we depend on imports, the stronger and more capable we will be in achieving efficiency and sovereignty.”
The above concept was the prevailing axis during the tour of Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, this Monday afternoon when he visited the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa province.
It was not by chance that in the first item on the agenda, basic business unit (UEB) in charge of the Roberto Escudero Pharmaceutical Laboratory Company – Diaz-Canel spoke about the need for “research on raw materials that we can replace" and on the “value of improving the presentation of our products” ensuring Cuban people trust in what we make in Cuba.
Marlene Dominguez Alfonso, director of the UEB, explained to the President, the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the authorities of the territory, details on the main tasks occupying the UEB, a productive entity. The year 2024 will be as complex as previous years but thanks to a group of strategies the Company and UEB follow, they will make up for the deficit of raw materials faced. Although substituting imports is not an easy task, it is an urgent one and in 2023 we were able to substitute three national raw materials (beeswax, corn starch and mint) explained Marlene, who added that such substitution saved Cuba 2.5 million pesos.
For 2024, UEB plans to venture into Natural and Traditional Medicine. “Taking into account the deficit of medicines the country has today, we are talking about a good branch, for which we have the required productive and technological capacities, and trained personnel.” Dominguez Alfonso referred with pride to the products that UEB produces today, like the gel for ultrasounds with which UEB is prioritizing the program for mother and child health. They are also repackaging bicarbonate for hemodialysis -one of the sensible products for our health sector.
The second stop on the itinerary for Bauta was the UEB responsible for dairy products Julio Antonia Mella, or as it is better known, Balkan. Instability in the supply of raw materials is having a negative impact in production, particularly in the production of milk. This challenge, that other areas in Cuba also face, requires initiative, incentives, and alternative roads if we are to fulfil demand while focusing mainly on our own strength.
The Institute of Grain Research is involved in a similar search. Diaz-Canel talked with Daysbel Toledo Diaz, director of Science, Innovation and Development of the mentioned institute. Both agreed on a strategic purpose that guarantees varieties that would increase agricultural production. “Beyond rice, corn and beans, we are working in soya, peanut and sesame seeds -oil producing plants, as well as on sorghum and legumes like chickpeas.” The work of the Institute guarantees food for people as well as animal feed. Toledo Diaz explained they try resistant varieties that adapt well to our soils and climate and exhibit good yields. He added that “our varieties are resistant and proven effective in all Cuba.”
Listening to Toledo Diaz, attentive to his sense of belonging and the extent of his knowledge and energy, we had total clarity about Cuba’s need for many engineers like him, focused on improvement and without doubts that Cuba will find its best and more sustainable riches “within itself.”
Agricultura production: a permanent challenge for Cubans.
This is not the first time Díaz-Canel shares the conviction that together we can move Cuba forward. This Monday when he arrived to the municipality of Minas de Matahambre (in Pinar del Rio), he recalled the most decisive variable in challenging times: our will, the will of human beings.
During this, his third visit this year to Pinar del Río, Diaz-Canel emphasized the need to increase production as the most direct way to reverse many of the difficulties we face in Cuba. He pointed, for example, that more food produced will deal blows to the inflation affecting everyone so much.
Reflecting on this idea at the Basic Cooperative Production Unit (UBPC) Los Burros, part of the Tobacco Collection and Processing Company, executives explained that, in spite of having closed 2023 with profits UBPC has vast potentialities to increase profits as the land is only 70% exploited. Cattle raising is what the workers want, and need, to make incursions in.
On his way through Minas de Matahambre, Díaz-Canel stopped at the Sumidero popular council to exchange with people living there: "Together we can move the country forward," he told those present.
At the Centro de Escogida v-10-66, Diaz-Canel shared his certainty that only by uniting all efforts we will be able to overcome the challenges we face. This centre belongs to the Empresa de Acopio y Beneficio del Tabaco, where the President was interested in salaries paid, profits obtained and presence of young people in the labor group.
At UEB Silvícola Forestal Sumidero, the third stop in our president itinerary, we learned that this institution ended last calendar year with few profits reason why their goal is to diversify production planting fruit trees, extracting resin and producing charcoal. There, the president spoke about how 2024 must be the year "to get up" and then to the workers -you, the workers, must have all the opportunities to discuss the process because working we will move forward.
The tour was closed with the meeting of the country's leadership with leaders of the municipality and the province, followed by an exchange between the President and the people waiting for him in the vicinity of the venue. The Head of State spoke about "compression" on the path that goes from an unfavorable situation to success, and insisted on the importance of production. To the children of Minas, the President ratified the potentialities of the Cuban people, those born from creativity.
Regarding the enemies who recently orchestrated a media attack against the Cuban Revolution, he reasoned that they dream of the disappearance of the Revolution, they are devoid of motivation and understanding.
The Head of State spoke of "understanding” the path from an unfavorable situation to success, insisting on the crucial importance of production. To the children of Minas, the President ratified the potential of the Cuban people, born from creativity.
Regarding the enemies who recently orchestrated a media attack against the Cuban Revolution, he reasoned that those who dream of the disappearance of the Revolution, are devoid of motivation and commitment to the people and its possible successes.
"We are in a complex situation, but we are going to overcome it," and he spoke again of the “we” -the word in which the key to all synergy and triumph dwells.
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First medical institution in Cuba with international certification
Founded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters
Author: National news staff | informacion@granma.cu
january 26, 2024 07:01:56
Photo: José Manuel CorreaFounded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters
Author: National Editor
The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) became the first medical institution in Cuba to receive the Certification of the International Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Founded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters with impact on the dimensions of governance and university management and infrastructure, training, research, artistic creation and innovation, and linkage and internationalization, as explained by the Ministry of Public Health.
The rector of the institution, Dr. Yoandra Muro Valle, summarized the greatness of a work that already has 19 graduations and has reached more than 120 countries. Throughout its 25 years, the School has also been visited by 60 heads of state, 300 ministers of health, three Nobel Prize winners and more than 80,100 foreigners.
The Executive Director of the Council for International Evaluation and Accreditation of the Union of Latin American and Caribbean Universities, Dr. Orlando Gabriel Delgado Salley, highlighted the strengthening achieved in the improvement plans for the faculty, student participation in decision making, the updating of the bibliography in the subject programs, and the improvement of access to technological resources, as well as the contribution to universal health in different contexts.
Cuba's Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, thanked the rigorous process to which this center was subjected, and acknowledged the efforts of the teachers, students and administrative staff.
The international certification guarantees the quality of the education provided by this center, reduces possible mistrust and expands the opportunities for graduates of higher education institutions to enter the labor market.
Founded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters
Author: National news staff | informacion@granma.cu
january 26, 2024 07:01:56
Founded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters
Author: National Editor
The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) became the first medical institution in Cuba to receive the Certification of the International Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Founded by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and inaugurated on November 15, 1999, the ELAM was awarded this distinction, valid for six years, for complying with rigorous quality parameters with impact on the dimensions of governance and university management and infrastructure, training, research, artistic creation and innovation, and linkage and internationalization, as explained by the Ministry of Public Health.
The rector of the institution, Dr. Yoandra Muro Valle, summarized the greatness of a work that already has 19 graduations and has reached more than 120 countries. Throughout its 25 years, the School has also been visited by 60 heads of state, 300 ministers of health, three Nobel Prize winners and more than 80,100 foreigners.
The Executive Director of the Council for International Evaluation and Accreditation of the Union of Latin American and Caribbean Universities, Dr. Orlando Gabriel Delgado Salley, highlighted the strengthening achieved in the improvement plans for the faculty, student participation in decision making, the updating of the bibliography in the subject programs, and the improvement of access to technological resources, as well as the contribution to universal health in different contexts.
Cuba's Minister of Public Health, José Angel Portal Miranda, thanked the rigorous process to which this center was subjected, and acknowledged the efforts of the teachers, students and administrative staff.
The international certification guarantees the quality of the education provided by this center, reduces possible mistrust and expands the opportunities for graduates of higher education institutions to enter the labor market.
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Heroic people's strength for a new anniversary
More than 400 works of socioeconomic interest will be delivered to the infrastructure of the province of Santiago de Cuba, in salute to the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution
Author: Luis Alberto Portuondo | internet@granma.cu
December 11, 2023 12:12:00
More than 400 works of socioeconomic interest will be delivered to the infrastructure of the province of Santiago de Cuba, in salute to the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution
"In a matter as decisive as food security and sovereignty, we are planting 65,000 hectares and 18 new areas of agricultural development, two per municipality, and carrying out a significant number of works, to reach the 65th anniversary of the Revolution with improvements in the quality and standard of living of the people of Santiago," said José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, first secretary of the Party in the province, when he called the people to days of decisive effort.
In the first semester of the year, the infrastructure of the territory was revitalized, as agreed for the 70th anniversary of the assault to the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks; and in the present stage, the completion of 1,355 houses and 479 basic housing cells is foreseen; to continue in the transformation of neighborhoods and communities, and in the application of asphalt on roads, highways and, especially, in the populous areas of Enramadas, Callejón del Carmen, La Alameda, Artes y Oficios, and 13 de Agosto.
Work was also carried out in the repair of the Dos Ríos power plant, in the planting and cultural attention to the sugar cane fields, in the image of the towns and cities - in the case of Palma Soriano important revival works are being carried out, given its relevance in the events that determined the revolutionary triumph -, and in the centers of commerce, gastronomy and services, as well as educational and health institutions. Likewise, in the 26th of July and First Front museums, and in the Céspedes Park, where, on January 1, 2024, the central act for the 65th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution will take place.
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U$S 280.2 million could have benefitted Cuba...
But did not. Why?
Because the Cuban banking and financial system continues to be a target of aggressive measures of the US Government reinforcing its Blockade against Cuba.
October 31st, 2023 Editorial | internet@granma.cu
Blocked access to raw materials is limiting Cuban productive capacity.
Editorial | internet@granma.cu
Sobrino Martinez explained that these are not subjective plans, but rather figures that were reached in 2017, 2018 and part of 2019. Relative to another product that is highly in demand and in deficit today, such as soft drinks, he assured that there is capacity for about 30 million cases per year. We always face particular challenges because our country does not have access to financing and has to pay almost everything in advance and, furthermore, when a contract is signed, and due to the limitations of the blockade, the money takes up to 60 days to become effective. In the supplier's banks, it is difficult to guarantee the logistics to produce food. And yet, Cuba will continue ensuring that our focus remains avoiding neoliberal measures that guarantee food supply to a tiny percentage of the population while leaving the rest completely unprotected.
await greater farmers' productivity
Cuban soils face degradation and await greater farmers’ productivity
(Translated from Spanish by Nora Fernandez)
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