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The
Irrigation
Is
Scarce
in Las
Tunas
February
20,
2010, 10:02 am
By Raul
Estrada
Zamora
estrada@enet.cu
Translation:
Ernesto
Gutierrez
Pino
Las Tunas.– The
eastern
province
of Las
Tunas,
the less
rainy in
Cuba,
doesn’t
have
enough
watering
systems,
reason
why
hardly
some 5,
500
hectares
receive
water
and not
always
in the
necessary
quantities.
In 2009
the
irrigated
surface
increased
discreetly,
but
there
were
municipalities,
such as
the
southern
Amancio
and
Colombia,
that
hardly
experienced |
The
cleaning
of dams
and
channels
help the
saving
of water
and
foreign
currencies.
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improvement,
while in
the
eastern
territory
of
Majibacoa
the
irrigation
didn't
grow.
Although
there
was an
electrification
in most
of the
pumping
stations,
only 1,
851
hectares
received
the
important
liquid,
but in
2010 it
is
expected
to
continue
progressing
in that
direction,
even
when the
high
prices
of the
fuel in
the
international
market,
the
global
economic
crisis
and the
criminal
US
blockade
against
Cuba
force to
make a
better
use the
electric
energy.
The
assembly
in 2009
of 20
semi
protected
systems
of
cultivation
and the
repair
of
several
machines
in six
of the
eight
municipalities
of the
territory
have
favored
the
supply
of
vegetables
and
fresh
condiments
to the
population.
The
engineer
Alexis
Velazquez,
delegate
of the
Ministry
of
Agriculture
in Las
Tunas
province,
informed
that
more
than 30
new
watering
systems
will
enter in
service
this
year
that
together
with the
maintenance
and
exploitation
of the
reservoirs,
channels,
and
windmills
will
improve
the
supply
of water
to the
plantations.
According
to
directives
of the
System
of the
Agriculture
in the
territory,
690
kilometers
to the
east of
Havana,
presently
year
some
102, 000
tons of
vegetables,
included
tubers,
grains,
will be
gathered,
figure
inferior
to the
demand,
but very
above
the one
obtained
in 2008,
when the
region
was
battered
by two
powerful
hurricanes.
Besides
the
scarce
precipitations
and the
insufficient
equipment
to
irrigate
the
lands,
this
province
doesn't
have any
large
river
and only
has
capacity
to store
350
million
cubic
meters
of
water.
Moreover,
80
percent
of its
soils
present
some
type of
sterilizing
factor.
Those
circumstances
determine
that
here the
only
alternative
is to
practice
an
economic
and
ecologically
sustainable
agriculture
by means
of the
application
of the
scientific-technical
achievements.
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