HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 5 (ACN) In the current cold season, which ends next February, the companies of the Agricultural Group (GAG) intend to plant 130,162 hectares (ha) of different crops, said Jose Manuel Martinez Rodriguez, head of the Agricultural Department of the GAG from the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to what the official explained to Granma newspaper, 2,700 hectares (ha) will be dedicated to the planting of traditional potatoes in the provinces of Pinar del Río, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara and Ciego de Avila, and in the Special Municipality of the Isle of Youth.
He specified that the necessary inputs for the crop -fertilizers and seeds- are already in the country and are being distributed to the diffe