Eleven months took him to Ministry of Agriculture (Minag) Determine the Livestock mass registered in Cuba. The conclusion is that it continues to diminish and the current figure is 2 914 009 copies.
To determine such a situation, they visited 191 802 owners, representing 99.7 % of the total, according to Yudith Almeida, head of the department of the Livestock Registry, cited by Granma.
Prior to initiating this census, in March 2024, the authorities set the total in 200,000 notes.
The national exercise of control of the control of the vaccine mass, carried out between March 2024 and January 2025, revealed that Cuba currently has 2 914 009 head of cattle. https://t.co/l9u97tgjwb
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The most significant violations correspond to “the terms of owners outside the country, deceased, some who comply with sanctions of deprivation of liberty or their location is unknown.”
They also detected “births without declaring –43 143–, illegal sale, without registering, missing, deaths without document and thefts.”
A minimal figure of owners is pending for visiting, specifically in La Tunas. Of those visited, 188 338 are natural and 3 464 legal
In the count they also registered 181 854 illegalities; Although, according to Almeida “1128 are pending in Pinar del Río, Mayabeque and Las Tunas.”
After this exercise “of high control”, as it calls Granmaand according to MINAG sites, it was concluded that most animals belong to the cooperative and peasant sector, “although companies maintain herds with high genetic value, which preserve pure breeds, including those obtained in Cuba, as a result of crossing and scientific research ”.
Trend: Mass decrease
For several years, he points out Granmalivestock shows a tendency to decrease in mass, and justifies it “essentially due to changes in parenting technologies, veterinary and food supplies deficits, deterioration of productive indicators, as well as the theft and sacrifice of the specimens” .
According to cited figures by independent means such as And a halfin 1985 there were just over five million head of cattle, and underlines between 2006 and 2014 as the only period in which the livestock mass recovered slightly, from 3.7 million to 4.1.
In 1959, bovine heads were 5.1 million for the 6.5 million inhabitants of the island at that time, this source underlines.
How many cows are missing in Cuba? No news of the livestock mass
The tendency to decrease in the livestock mass is unstoppable since the 90s, when the devastating recessive crisis from the Soviet collapse and the loss of the advantageous markets of the so -called real socialism in Eastern Europe broke up.
On the importance of this action, the Minag’s official said that “the positive and negative aspects related to the events of the cattle ranch were identified.”
In addition, he said, contributed to the training of producers in achieving the best results in the zootechnical flow of livestock, indicators of hiring and the author of the sacrifice for self -consumption and marketing.
