During this week, three pounds of potatoes per consumer have been distributed in the municipality of Las Tunas, for a price of 11 pesos each, according to Javier Velázquez Morales, the commercial director of the Collection Company.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The manager explained that this process will be gradually extended to the rest of the province, which was assigned 755 tons of the tuber, coming from Ciego de Ávila, and transported here by the means of that entity.

He noted that the marketing of this appreciated food to family nuclei will be controlled through the supply book at the usual sales points, established in coordination between the Commerce and Agriculture systems.

Velázquez Morales pointed out that workers of the Collection Company will effort as long as necessary to complete the distribution, and urged consumers to buy the product within three days, to avoid its loss due to lack of refrigeration.