A new type of unit, belonging to the Poultry Company of Las Tunas, diversifies its production in order to guarantee the entity's self-consumption rates.
Las Tunas, Cuba - With a solid and responsible treatment of everything that is produced there, this place executes alternatives in lines like the production of free-range and semi-rustic chickens, eggs, turkeys and pigs, which allow from the local a gradual self-supply of food substituting the imports.
This is the daily life of the brigade of various productions known as La Loma, located in the capital city. Created since 2000 to meet the demand for food for workers and the adjacent council, this unit stands out for its excellent results, growing in the current year and creating foundations for gradually achieving higher yields.
In dialogue with 26Digital, Aramís Ochoa Ávila, head of the brigade, reported that recently this enclave was dedicated to promoting turkeys. This cycle, which included the breeding, slaughter and sale of the species, attended to some 1,660 specimens, with a good survival rate, and was aimed at selling to workers and El Mambí agricultural market.
The process began in January and February, when these turkeys were brought from the province of Ciego de Ávila, with one day of birth, reached weight for the marketing of approximately eight kilograms and totaled 28,656 pounds in the 120 days that lasted their development.
In other aspects, the director explained that in their structures they also raise five thousand free-range chickens and about 160 semi-rustic ones, the first ones for fattening and use of the meat; the second ones, for obtaining eggs.
As confirmed by Aramís, as far as the production of creole pigs is concerned, in this same unit, we now have about 10 heads of the 40 capacities that the corrals have. The 85 kilograms each will be taken and sold in December to the workers of the Poultry Farm, as part of the beans given to them for the celebrations of the Triumph of the Revolution and the coming of the new year".
At this site, the same workers make the feed for the pigs from king grass and yucca, thus guaranteeing the animal food on a daily basis.
Since 2005, La Loma belongs to the Urban, Suburban and Family Agriculture Program, because it develops several of its programs, has a livestock module, and an organoponic with beets, beans, lettuce, and aromatic plants, all of which has contributed to holding the Fourth Excellence since 2018.
This brigade also uses biological means through repellent plantations such as nim and Mexican marigold to reduce the presence of insects and the unit closes the cycle, because it uses chicken manure as fertilizer for the organoponic, said Ochoa Ávila.
