AGRICULTURE

Cuba makes progresses in delivering idle lands in usufruct with the granting since 2008 of more than 1.580.000 hectares and the updating of the legislation referring to the issue, as part of the improvement of the economic model.»

Cuba’s new tax regime became effective on January 1, 2013, following the enactment of the nation’s first comprehensive tax code since the triumph of the revolution in 1959.»

Escambray reproduces photos of some of the most remarkable events of 2012 in S. S.»

The new Cuban tributary system, to come into force next January, includes a special regime for the agricultural sector, which seeks to foster the production of basic foodstuffs in the island.»

Without giving up on the use of chemicals, especially in crops prioritized in Cuba to control pests and ensure the production, Sancti Spiritus agriculture tends to reduce the use of industrial pesticides in recent years while increasing the work with biological means.»

According to local sources, new applications are underway while some areas prevail vacant or poorly exploited, the majority of them concentrated in the municipalities of La Sierpe and Sancti Spiritus.»

For several years, the food supply of nearly half a million residents in Sancti Spiritus, has been coming from the cooperative and farmer sector.»

The female labor force in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, represents more than the 20 percent of the total membership of the Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CPA) and more than 15 percent of those are inserted in the Credit and Service Cooperatives (CCS).»

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, sent a message to the staff of the Indio Hatuey Experimental Station of Pasture and Foder, congratulating them on the 50th anniversary of the center and recognizing their work.»

The National Hydraulic Resources Institute of Cuba (INRH) established in 2012 the consumption of nine billion cubic meters of water, nearly half of them in agricultural plantations, official sources said on Thursday.»