The lands recovered from Ciego de Ávila infested with marabú – Avileña Television

Over two thousand hectares covered with marabou and other weeds south of Ciego de Ávila were saved and plowed and prepared for sowing cane for the next harvests, especially for the Ecuadorian sugar factory.

The project covers fertile land of red clay and is supported by abundant water in the basement, in areas surrounding the communities of La Susana, Caballé, La Maya and El Vaquerito, where the clearing of two others continues thousand hectares of marabuzales

One plants the first clear fields of the thorny plant, there is a force of work and the necessary machines, whereas there are already eight series of coils with plastic pipes for the irrigation of stumps, quality seeds and other resources.

The engineer Eduardo Larroza Vázquez, director of the sugar company Ciego de Ávila, stressed the work of heavy machinery operators, with schedules of 10 hours a day and the use even of machetes, axes, herbicides and other means to clean weeds.

Similar planting programs in the cane areas are also carried out in the vicinity. the Ciro Redondo, Primero de Enero and Enrique Varona plants, aiming to guarantee sufficient raw materials for the province to intensify its crude production from 2019 onwards and become a national leader again, said the director

. also, some industrial investments and the contribution of agro-farmers in the promotion of planted areas, both state farms and peasant cooperatives, which for several years have paid a third of the cane, until 39; at 600 thousand tons

The goal is to plant varieties of short, medium and late cycle, close to the factories and not forgetting the replantations, according to Carlos González, a specialist of the aforementioned entity, l & # 39; 39, Irrigation and maturation are carried out in places where conditions permit

According to forecasts, by the end of the year 2019, it is expected the construction of an adjacent bioelectric plant at the Ciro Redondo factory. the date at which sweet stem yields will have to be higher and also for this purpose energy forests will be developed in the municipality of the same name.

Technology coming from the People's Republic of China, this facility will bring 60 megawatts / hour, of sugarcane bagbade that Avilanian sugar mills generate, in addition to the use of marabú, which in this province is about 80 thousand hectares.