MIAMI, United States.- The heavy rains of the first week of June damaged some 3,941 hectares in Cuba, and caused the crops of another 1,635 hectares to be lost, according to what the official newspaper reported this Friday. Granma.
According to the text, which cites a report prepared by the Food Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, the effects were mainly on “meats, vegetables and grains.”
The document specifies that urban agriculture reported damage of some kind in 11,868 flowerbeds.
For its part, tobacco was another crop that was affected by the rains: 444.7 tons of tobacco were damaged, of which 17.5 were lost.
In Pinar del Río, 1,050 hectares of mature rice were counted as possibly affected; and in Cienfuegos and Ciego de Ávila the harvest is paralyzed.
The report explains that “according to the decision to collect all the products to be used for human and animal consumption, in Havana, as of the 5th, food began to arrive for immediate distribution through the network of managed markets. by the Territory Storage Company”.
For its part, adds the official report, with the aim “of taking advantage of the existing moisture in the soil, it has been arranged to develop a movement of short-cycle sowing in agriculture in 21,000 hectares ready to plant at this time, where priority is given to the affected crops (basically sweet potatoes, cassava, cucumbers, squash and corn)”.
The rains at the beginning of this month left, in addition to losses in Cuban agriculture, hundreds of partial landslides: 290, of them 148 only in Havana, of them two total and 146 partial.
Three people died as a result of the landslides.
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