PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Oct 4 (ACN) Pinar del Rio, an eminently agricultural province, faces the challenge of promoting programs in the sector that will result in import substitution, increased exports and food production for the population.
Some of them were checked by Salvador Valdes Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party and Vice President of the Republic, who made an extensive tour of productive areas and entities of the municipalities of San Juan y Martinez, Guane and Sandino.
Accompanied by the top authorities of the Party and the Government in the territory, he visited areas of the Hermanos Saiz Tobacco Enterprise in San Juan y Martinez, a municipality with 3,200 hectares planned to be planted in the 2024-2025 campaign, the largest plan in the country.
Valdes Mesa referred to the need to increase tobacco yields, the main exportable item of Cub