• The highest authorities of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the municipality and the province of Ciego de Ávila agreed on the strategic importance of being attentive to the possibilities of expanding and diversifying productions in productive settings.

That the extraordinary plenary of the Municipal Committee of the organisation in Ciego de Ávila checked compliance with its priorities and indicators in correspondence with the most pressing needs and demands of the population, is confirmation that political and ideological work in the province is attentive to the feelings of those who, day after day, face complex circumstances.

Thus it is understood that the priority summarised as ensuring the government programme to correct distortions and re-energise the economy was at the centre of the interventions.

In particular, the commitment to ensure that all productive bases have exportable items and productions that substitute imports led to important reflections and orientations from Julio Heriberto Gómez Casanova, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the party organisation.

The possibilities contained in the new financing schemes approved at national level become a formula to provide tobacco, charcoal, honey, rice, beans, oilseeds, mung beans, milk, meat and eggs.

As Gómez Casanova said before the conclave, the majority of productive bases have little or nothing of that, «they have mortgaged the Cuban countryside,» but he recalled that those responsible for change have names and surnames, it falls to them to interpret this mandate and discuss it in each place, taking into account that it is the way to access convertible currency to acquire vital resources such as oil, lubricants, machinery, fertilisers, pesticides, among others.

The leader took stock of the reality of such productions in the province, following the changes that seek economic re-energisation.

He recalled that in October, the political movement for tobacco production was set in motion, and that the capital municipality had about 31 hectares remaining at the close of last month, out of the hundred it had proposed to plant in the 2025-2026 campaign.

There are already about 105 curing houses — part of the essential infrastructure — and 52 new ones are being built, some of them in this municipality, he elaborated.

Other indications from Gómez Casanova’s intervention regarding food production revolved around charcoal production in two directions: satisfying the needs of the population at fair prices, corresponding in each case to the cost sheet, and destined for export.

In this regard he commented that «productive bases must be committed to making kilns, since we already have experiences of those who make up to three per week.»

The perspectives opened up through greater development of grains such as mung bean and rice, and the planting of sunflower and sesame, oilseeds with which it is intended to gradually satisfy local demand for cooking oil, did not escape the reflections. As a starting point, he asserted that last year more than 24,000 litres of oilseed oil were produced on Avilanian farms.

Before the members of the Municipal Committee and guests, the first secretary of the Provincial Party Committee insisted on the best way to advance: go where the advanced producers are, evaluate on which front they can respond and discuss with them, in addition to state entities also getting involved in the task.

Among the essential challenges is the increase in animal stock, based on local-scale productions such as cassava and mung bean, the latter a grain with a high protein level, without forgetting the actions being undertaken to make the annual production of about 20 million eggs a reality.

As a continuation of the agreements emanating from the XI Plenary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the extraordinary provincial plenary, the conclave evaluated the state of compliance with the indicators aimed at fulfilling the rest of the priorities: strengthening unity, perfecting political and ideological work, and confronting deviations and negative tendencies present in Cuban society.

Both the highest party leadership of the province and that of the municipality insisted on the strategic value of assuming the current situation creatively, as Gómez Casanova warned, «to resist is not an empty word, it is not staying still, it is giving food to the people, guaranteeing vital services, that everyone who has the possibility does what corresponds to them.»

To guarantee success, emphasis was placed on the urgency of systematically evaluating more than 200 indicators, commitment by commitment, and structuring into continuous months the triad of municipal plenaries, meetings with general secretaries of grassroots organisations and checking in the municipal and provincial bureaus of said political organisation.

It also falls to party instances in the municipalities to deploy «all the meetings and additional actions that are necessary, likewise it must be seen in the People’s Power assemblies, in the administration councils, and very importantly, in the party nuclei which have to do and demand, they cannot be simple claimants,» Gómez Casanova specified.