Prime Minister Highlights Performance of Urban Agriculture Over Three Decades

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz recognized the performance of urban agriculture in fostering a food and nutritional culture among the population.

The congratulatory message, read by Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca during the national celebration in Pinar del Río for the 38th anniversary of the movement's creation, acknowledges the work of producers and their families in materializing agrarian and agroecological extensionism.

Marrero Cruz defined the instruction by Army General Raúl Castro, which enabled the birth of urban agriculture on December 27, 1987, as timely and enriching.

Led by Dr. Adolfo Rodríguez Nodals and a group of experts, the initiative filled Cuban cities with vegetable gardens.

The movement now occupies 20,000 hectares across the nation and encompasses intensive gardens, plots, and family patios.

"It is a movement that has demonstrated its validity, its closeness to the family," emphasized Tapia Fonseca, adding that large organoponic farms are being recovered across the country and new plots are emerging that provide food to communities.

Producers and productive structures were recognized at the event, which declared the provinces of Pinar del Río, Artemisa, and Sancti Spíritus as the most outstanding.