The La Cuba market, erected in record time in the city of Ciego de Ávila within the eponymous province, reflects the recovery of the enterprise sustaining it, assured the Ministry of Agriculture (Minag) today on its official site.

According to Minag’s report, since the commercial establishment’s inauguration on 25 July last, processes are developing well, evidence that after a decade of production difficulties, the entity is recovering.

The body highlighted the restoration of the workforce and the battle waged against the demons of the tightened economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the country by the United States government, and the economic crisis.

Ariel Nieves Concepción, general director of the La Cuba Agricultural Enterprise, located in Baraguá municipality, explained they currently cultivate Gran Enano plantains across 350 hectares (ha), representing an increase from the 50 ha with which they began a year ago.

Nieves Concepción stated they restored the airstrip for aerial spraying with fungicides produced from plantation surpluses, yielding positive results.

La Cuba harvests around twenty products daily, dispensing with those some wrongly call exotic, even though they distinguish us, such as annonas, mamey sapote, avocado, lettuce and others, Minag reported.

The market—one of the works inaugurated in honour of the 72nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks—is the enterprise’s sole outlet in the city.

It is supplied daily by the productive hub comprising the enterprise, cooperatives and usufructuaries, with prices ranging between 18 and 23 pesos per pound of plantains, and processed goods not exceeding 60 pesos.