Florida, Aug 4.- Around 1,300 applications for idle state lands were requested in free usufruct in the municipality of Florida since the entry into force of Decree Law 358 of 2018, of which more than 95 percent have already received a response from the structures set up for it.
According to sources from the Ministry of Agriculture in the territory, to date, most of the requests for inactive land were aimed at promoting large-scale livestock, to obtain meat and cow milk, while the volumes were lower. hectares approved for planting rice and other crops.
According to the information source itself, the imbalance in productive purposes is related, above all, to the quality of the soil where the beneficiaries of Decree Law 358 in Florida settle.
To the demand to achieve better results every day in the process of adjudication of idle state lands to any Cuban citizen with the will and conditions to make them produce, the ordinance is added to close the agreement with those natural or legal persons who, within a determined period, and unjustifiably, keep them inactive.
The 1,234 files processed to date by the Land and Tractors Registry of the Florida municipality respond to the provisions of the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and the Revolution, among which it is demanded to multiply the productive results of the agricultural sector and support any initiative that from the furrow and the dairy promotes, with legal protection, the availability of food for the people.
