Santa Cruz del Sur bets on cattle raising
The Nacional Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), in Santa Cruz del Sur, has 993 farms only eighth of them are classified as agro-ecological. According to Arbelio Viamontes Pimentel, who is in charge of that sphere, there are 513 farms inside the initiated process and 83 in course.
Not using fertilizers, insecticides or weed-killers are some of the aspects required to reach such category, its necessary to use only biological means for the plague regulation, with products from the CREE, based in La Jagua.
Bio-fertilizers can also be used, and to sow pasture and fodder which goes to livestock, apart from the application of organic fertilizers. (Rolando Canaura Sánchez/ Radio Santa Cruz)