​Cuba's deputy prime minister meets with producers and managers of livestock in Camagüey. (Photo: Maria Rosa del Sol / Rodolfo Blanco Cuemaria)

Camagüey, October 11 (RHC)-- Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, Deputy Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, held an exchange with leaders of agriculture, agricultural production bases, officials and specialists linked to livestock production in Camagüey.

During the meeting, the situation of the current milk production in the province was evaluated, with a delay of more than five million 700 thousand liters with respect to the annual program, and that is made to increase to 289 thousand the daily delivery in order to revert it, besides the control required on the around 170 centers of food refrigeration that the province has.

Among the causes of these results has been the drought that affected the province, the inability to guanrantee the necessary food and water, besides organizational problems in the productive bases requiring a change in the processes, because thousands of cattle were not incorporated to the reproduction.

The Deputy prime minister was interested in the low production in the delivery of meat, where the loss and low weight of animals for the same causes prevails, and generally demanded the necessary exchange between heads and officials with producers to know their problems and give quick solutions with organization in the work systems.

At this time of rain, he said, we must review and ensure the water barriers and the state of the windmills to solve problems, especially when Camagüey is home to the factory of these systems of water extraction and pumping.

Later, Tapia Fonseca went to the south of the province where he visited sugar mills accompanied by José Ramón Monteagudo, a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Ariel Santana, first secretary of the provincial committee of the PCC.