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Comandante · Verfasst am: 31.01.2007 11:27 Titel: Cuba Boosts Urban Agriculture

Cuba Boosts Urban Agriculture

Havana, Jan 30 (ACN) Over 350,000 people have joined the Urban Agriculture Program in Cuba which was initiated in 1994 and has progressively extended to other Latin American countries.

Some 40,000 of those workers are retired people and nearly 68,000 are women, reads the statistics of the Cuban Association of Agriculture and Forestry
Technicians (ACTAF) quoted by the Institute of Research on Tropical Agriculture, the sponsor of this initiative.

It is also noteworthy that at least 10,600 university graduates and 27,900 technicians in the island participate in 28 urban agriculture projects which have attained outstanding results in the last years.

Cuba's Urban Agriculture Program, which has also been implemented in Venezuela, is based on an agro-ecological approach that substitutes chemical fertilizers and pesticides with organic fertilizers and biological controls.

Thanks to this program, the production of vegetables has been between 3 to 4 million tons every year for the last five years.

http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu/idioma/ingles/2007/ene30agricurbana.htm
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