Diaz Canel insisted on the need to exercise a good system of government that carries out
ideas without so many meetings. Photo: @PresidenciaCuba
Havana, January 13 (RHC)-- Matanzas will incorporate eight new products for export this year with the aim of boosting the economy, it was reported Friday at a working meeting led by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in that province in the western part of the country.
Wax, pollen, royal jelly, lodging and food services, salted hides and Cuban rums Añejo Suave, Blanco and Varadero Añejo will be included in the territory's foreign sales for the current year.
The Cuban president explained that in order to develop the economy, it is necessary to break the import mentality, recover the export capacity of sugar and its derivatives and boost rural areas with degrees of urbanization through the construction of housing and the development of services.
Díaz Canel insisted on the need to exercise a good system of government that carries out ideas without so many meetings, participation of the people and adequate management of resources such as idle lands.
For his part, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz called for perfecting work systems and achieving greater organization with the aim of resolving pending issues as soon as possible and through concrete actions.
The first secretary of the PCC in Matanzas, Susely Morfa expressed that with the incorporation of these products the province aspires to generate a greater number of incomes that have an impact on the fulfillment of the purpose of being a reference for the national economy.
She commented that other projections of the territory are based on reaching 26 thousand hectares of rustic crops, increasing the plantain sowing, introducing new clones of cassava, sweet potato and malanga and extending the sowing of rice and grains.
Among the strategies planned for 2023 is also the growth of five thousand tons of soy-derived food, achieving more than 45 thousand tons of fruit trees and perfecting the work in the productive pole of the 'Victoria de Girón' Agroindustrial Enterprise, which belongs to the municipality of Jagüey Grande.
With his presence in Matanzas, Miguel Díaz Canel is making his seventh governmental visit this year to Cuban territories, in order to evaluate in each province the socioeconomic potentialities for 2023.