Leonis Vega Carmona has an enthusiasm that is confused with the furrow, to which she arrives every day and dedicates long days to exploiting the land to the maximum and achieving high volumes of food.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- His happiness, although it is made up of many little things, is defined by three great loves: family, agricultural work, and his pigeons, his little animals, as he says, because being a pigeon fancier is more than a qualification, it is a state of mind, an attitude towards life.
"Pigeons make me happy, just as they make me happy to produce food. I am a farmer by birth, but I could live in the city of Las Tunas, with my mother and my sisters, but this farm calls me. Here I feel great, fulfilled as some people say. I like being a farmer."
Leonis is an intelligent, educated man, with a broad vision of life, and his charisma distinguishes him, together with his country manners, typical of men from the countryside. Whoever arrives at his house, at the side of his farm, immediately feels the hospitality of him and his wife, a binomial as ideal to face the vicissitudes of time, the circumstances that surround humans.
"I have a way of being that is natural, I think. I am like that, I like to help others, and I feel very good when I know that my productions serve as food for people. In addition, I even qualify myself as a gift-giver, because when I see a needy person I don't look back to give him a product without him paying me. When I go to Las Tunas to take donkeys and other agricultural products to my family, I do it at the door of the house, in full view of everyone, and sometimes they come to buy a donkey's hand for 150 pesos, but no way, I give it to them for free. I also make donations to the mother's home, to the children's circle, and during the elections, I gave food for lunch to seven schools."
At Leonis' farm, which belongs to the Gonzalo Falcón credit and services cooperative, in Dumañuecos, municipality of Manatí, one day is like no other, even though the tasks are the same. Because he always tries to get out of the routine. And when he feels exhausted he goes with his pigeons, with which he competes, and says proudly that he has released some of them in Guanajay, Artemisa, and they always come home. "I like to put them to race, take care of their health, and keep the cages clean. That is a treasure, notice that not long ago I sold two pairs for 100,000 pesos, but that was an exception because I don't sell them."
Leonis Vega Carmona is a much-loved farmer on his land, and every day he strives to produce for the population because the field is an important part of the essence of his life.