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Hurricane Irma: Severe damages to Cuban agriculture
12
September, 2017,
HAVANA,
Cuba, Sep 12 (ACN) Although the figures are preliminary, the Ministry
of Agriculture (Minagri) reported that Hurricane Irma, after passing
through the national territory, caused severe damage to livestock
facilities, windmills, crops and livestock.
Fernando
Velazco Betancourt, head of the command post of Minagri, told ACN
that among the damages are the loss of more than 71 thousand hens, as
well as damages in the poultry houses, mainly in the provinces of
Camagüey, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Ciego de Ávila and Matanzas.
Faced
with such a situation, he said that they are working on blanketing
the roofs of these facilities and prioritizing the feeding and water
of the animals, while the maintenance and repair brigades of the less
affected territories were activated.
He
also stated that they workshops, feed mills, dairy farms, rearing
centers, as well as farming houses, nurseries and stonecutters
suffered deterioration.
According
to Velazco Betancourt, around five thousand hectares (ha) of
vegetables and fruits were damaged; of them 4,188 correspond to
banana plantations.
On
this last product, he added that everything in optimal state will be
distributed to the population and the rest to animal consumption, and
work is done to recover those plantations.
In
addition, he said that the company of La Cuba, in Ciego de Avila,
lost about 1,800 ha of banana plantations and that there are some 900
tons that will be commercialized in town and another part will be
destined to the tourism sector in Havana, Camagüey and Varadero.
Regarding
tobacco cultivation, the director assured that several seedlings of
the companies of Santiago de Cuba, Granma and Holguin showed
affectations, as well as factories and warehouses.
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One of the Caribbean islands hardest hit by Hurricane Irma was Cuba, where 10 people died. Irma hit Cuba’s northern coast as a Category 5 storm.
It was the deadliest hurricane in Cuba since 2005, when 16 people died in Hurricane Dennis.
Cuba has long been viewed as a world leader in hurricane preparedness and recovery.
According to the Center for International Policy, a person is 15 times as likely to be killed by a hurricane in the United States as in Cuba.
Meanwhile, Cuba has already sent more than 750 health workers to Antigua, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia, the Bahamas, Dominica and Haiti.
For more, we speak with Elizabeth Newhouse, director of the Center for International Policy’s Cuba Project. She has taken numerous delegations from the U.S. to Cuba to see how the Cubans manage disaster preparedness.
One of the Caribbean islands hardest hit by Hurricane Irma was Cuba, where 10 people died. Irma hit Cuba’s northern coast as a Category 5 storm.
It was the deadliest hurricane in Cuba since 2005, when 16 people died in Hurricane Dennis.
Cuba has long been viewed as a world leader in hurricane preparedness and recovery.
According to the Center for International Policy, a person is 15 times as likely to be killed by a hurricane in the United States as in Cuba.
Meanwhile, Cuba has already sent more than 750 health workers to Antigua, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia, the Bahamas, Dominica and Haiti.
For more, we speak with Elizabeth Newhouse, director of the Center for International Policy’s Cuba Project. She has taken numerous delegations from the U.S. to Cuba to see how the Cubans manage disaster preparedness.
After
the Cold War, Cuba faced many of the agricultural challenges that the
rest of the world is now anticipating.
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