Intensive days of work have starred nearly 12 thousand members of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in the province of Las Tunas, to promote the sowing, cleaning, and harvesting of various crops in agricultural production cooperatives and common areas of the credit and service cooperatives.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- These actions respond to a broad plan of activities organized in all municipalities to honor the 63rd anniversary of the Peasant Congress in Arms, held on September 21, 1958, in Soledad de Mayarí, and chaired by the then Commander of the Rebel Army, Raúl Castro Ruz.
The commemoration also includes the delivery of the José Ramírez Cruz and the ANAP 60th Anniversary Seals, according to Michel Peña Infante, a member of the organization's Provincial Bureau, who specified that outstanding founders and workers will be recognized, among others.
“It is the interest of the ANAP to highlight the selfless work of Health professionals during more than 18 months of coping with the COVID-19 pandemia, in a constant challenge to the death. Also, we intend to dignify many peasants who have given their noble contribution, fulfilling Fidel's preaching of sharing what they have."
“We will attend to the isolation centers, as well, to which it is planned the donation of more than 50 tons of food, vegetables, and other products, including beef. We know that it is not all that is needed but is some help given with a lot of will.”
The actions of these days are completed with the beautification of the premises in the different units, the updating of the identification billboards, blood donations, and the daily activities on the farms and productive entities, where about 80 percent of the food is guaranteed of the population.
“That is our main mission. I never tire of saying that, today, the rural area of each municipality is an important battle zone; not red, like that of the doctors, but green, to provide food and alleviate the effects of the iron blockade of the United States against Cuba.
“It is decisive that each peasant exploits the land to the maximum to produce more food, with initiatives, applying science and technology, one of the demands of that 1958 Congress, which ideas were materialized with the triumph of the Revolution and later, with the First Agrarian Reform Law ”.
