To reach the 30 pounds per capita established in the Municipal Self-Supply Program, the province of Las Tunas needs to produce and then commercialize seven thousand 371 tons of agricultural products every month, which is not yet possible.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Just one example is enough to illustrate how this intention behaves in the territory: at the end of December 2020, six thousand 014 tons were sold, which represented 82 percent of the plans and supported an average of 24.8 pounds per inhabitant.

So far it has not been possible to reach the desired figure; but it can be achieved if both state and individual producers take advantage of all the spaces and contract their harvests with the Collection Company, empowered to buy them and offer them to the population in small squares and agricultural markets, in addition to those destined for social consumption, that is to say, in schools, hospitals and other facilities.

In these days, the contracting process concludes in the eight municipalities, in which - according to the directors of the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture - a greater rigor has been applied, so that there are no cracks through which grains, food, fruits and vegetables can escape.

Precisely, in view of the call to producers to sell all their fruits to the State, Las Tunas Collection Company is able to buy the different items, which go beyond the traditional viands and fruits, as reported by Remigio Almaguer Rodriguez, Pricing specialist of this entity.

"We will buy everything that is produced as long as it is among our authorized items. Today the company's corporate purpose is to commercialize agricultural products and sometimes we run out of options because we have the economic contracting unfulfilled by producers.

"There is a list that includes several items, even chicken eggs. It might seem like a new experience, but it was done a long time ago, and now it is being rescued".

This possibility, plus the incentive of the new payments that producers will receive as part of the Ordinance Task, can increase food production in the territory and make it more common in the agricultural markets of the eight municipalities.