Venezuelan Minister Hails Cuban Support of Urban Agriculture in his Nation

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-12-28 17:48:05

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CARACAS, December 28 (RHC).---* Venezuelan Minister of Land and Agriculture, Ivan Gil, said that due to the support provided by Cuba, his country is successfully developing urban agriculture, a sector that helps to meet part of the food needs of people living in urban areas.

The Minister spoke at the inauguration of an urban plot of land planted with vegetables, which supplies with its products the inhabitants of the populous district of El Libertador, in Caracas.

The plot visited by the Minister has eight hundred square meters and produces nearly 7 thousand kilograms of vegetables annually.

The development of urban gardening was initiated by late President Hugo Chávez and is now followed up by his successor, President Nicolas Maduro, with the support of Cuban experts.

With the Cuban support, over 39 thousand urban agricultural gardens are already in production in Venezuela, the Minister of Agriculture noted.

This national program expects to count on a total of eighty thousand urban gardens in full production by the end 2014, said the minister.


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