Cuban Vice President Visits Tobacco Fields in Pinar del Rio

In the San Juan y Martinez municiality, he assessed the main damage to the tobacco houses (for drying the leaf), the leaf selection and talked with producers, who are engaged in the recovery tasks, he said on Twitter.

Moreover, when he arrived at the ‘El Cafetal’ People´s Council in this municipality, he verified the recovery of the “escogida” (selection) of tobacco and talked with the workers of the Procedures Office.

He tweeted that the homes of most of the covered tobacco workers were damaged, but production and recovery have not stopped.

He stressed that the westernmost province of the country is used to dealing with meteorological events “and we must put its experience into practice at this time to advance in the recovery,” he said.