A special investigation of large livestock and land use and tenure will be carried out in the province of Las Tunas from March 1st, which will allow the transformation of different units of the private and state sector, to produce more food.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The Minister of Agriculture (MINAG, in Spanish) Ydael Jesús Pérez Brito, who met in this city with those responsible for agricultural activity in the eight municipalities, leaders of the National Association of Small Farmers, and the governor Jaime Ernesto Chiang Vega, said that this is an exhaustive process that will be based on visits to individual producers and legal persons to evaluate in situ the use of the area and detect possible illegalities, for their rapid solution.

Pérez Brito pointed out that working commissions are being organized in each territory, which will be made up of representatives from the Comptroller's Office, the National Institute of Territorial Planning, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Interior, and other bodies.

As a whole, they will be interested in the existence of permanent buildings, the occupation of the area, the productive contract, and the links with basic business units, agricultural and livestock production cooperatives, credit and service cooperatives, and basic cooperative production units.

The livestock will be evaluated on birth and death rates, the timely registration of births, the general management of the herds, the classification by age, breed, and sex, and the marking of the animals, in addition to counting the mass and reviewing the files of each owner.

In summarizing the meeting, Chiang Vega considered it essential to multiply the training actions, especially for the commissions that will carry out the work, and expressed confidence that in the province of Las Tunas, the process will be carried out with quality and in the established time.