CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production

When an impoverished country like Cuba can put government support and research funding into organic and sustainable agriculture and come up with results like this it really shows the shortcoming of our pouring billions and billions into giant AgBioCorps so they can pollute our environment to deliver food like substances to us.
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CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production

By Patricia Grogg

POZO REDONDO, Cuba, May 13 (IPS) - The application of agroecological techniques and the salvaging of traditional farming methods have revolutionised food production in rural areas along the southern edge of the Cuban capital.

Cuba is currently facing the urgent challenge of boosting agricultural productivity because of the rise in global food prices.

A number of farms in the outlying Havana district of Batabanó that are taking part in the Programme for Local Agrarian Innovation (PIAL) have seen improvements in their harvests and livestock.

The key seems to lie in efforts to capitalise on natural conditions in the area and in the openness to innovative ideas, particularly with regard to crop diversification.

"We used to have big problems with animal feed," 39-year-old Jorge Bársena told IPS. "But today we don't need to buy hay, and we supply our own meat and eggs," said the farmer, who owns the La Otmara farm and is president of the 9 de Abril small farmers cooperative.

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house. Once the Secret Service sent me home because of my long hair and I got paid Ronnie's dough for sitting in the bar swilling beers. Nobody asks ya where ya got it when ya spend it.

Anyone interested in what they have accomplished should see this documentary. It's excellent. http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php