Florida, Jan 16.- On behalf of the thousands of farmers and peasants in Florida, Misael Hernández Gutiérrez, the president of the Alberto Becerra Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), called for greater attention to be paid to rural settlements in the territory, taking Keep in mind that it is there where the fundamental resource for the agri-food development of the municipality resides.
The also delegate of constituency 48 in the southern popular council Conquista referred specifically to the poor housing conditions of a considerable number of agrarian families, the insufficiency of transportation, the situation of the access roads and the low presence of recreational offers and other services in the rural part of the municipality.
The claim, made before the highest authorities of the Party and the Government in Florida, was supported by other leaders of peasant bases and is based on the levels of dissatisfaction of the inhabitants of the countryside and on the growing exodus of agricultural and sugarcane workers, mainly young people. towards the municipal seat.
The alert call was put in tune with the call made by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who during his recent visit to Pinar del Río oriented promoting the sustainability of agricultural communities, based on the strengthening of local development programs.
«We need to create adequate social conditions in the countryside,» stressed the Cuban president in his exchange with the authorities of the province convinced of the importance of men and women residing in rural areas, for the success of sovereignty plans food drawn by the country and in each territory.
