Bio-Agriculture in Cuba

Havana, Jun 29 (Prensa Latina) A million hectares are protected in Cuba
with biological products of national production, with 75 percent of
reductions of pesticide consumption and a saving of hundreds of millions
of dollars.

Dr Orieta Fernandez-Larrea reported biological control is part of a
national program in which 175 centers of entomopathogenous and
entomophagus microrganism reproduction, four fermentation plants and one
biofactory participate.

She stated the needs in that vegetable health respond to the sowing
plans, and highlighted the importance of the technologic discipline.

She pointed out the importance of lixophaga flies to avoid the attack of
the cane borer, an insect that that bores into the woody parts of the
plant.

The specialist also underlined the employment of biological agents in
cabbage, yucca and sweet potato cultivation.

She also reminded that Cuba is the first country in the world that
eradicated methyl bromide in tobacco.

Orieta pointed out the resistance of some plagues to chemical products
on a world scale and the possible of resolving that difficulty in
contemporary agriculture.

In Cuba, she said, bio-pesticide production is enough to care for all
available cultivation.

Virus and bacteria cause millions in losses in agriculture annually.
 

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