The urgency, approved this year, is aimed at stopping the decline in recent harvests based on better results from the leaf with efficiency and yields per hectare, as well as eliminating losses to recover the crop.

Specialists from the sector assure that the second largest producing province in the country has reported a big decrease in production and the loss of vegas and harvesters.

The last few years have witnessed strong financial limitations and the a decrease in the influx of resources due to the intensified and unjust blockade bythe United States, and now the goal is to seek productive sources and cultivating new fields in tobacco-growing municipalities.

Prensa Latina learned that the strategy is for producers to receive a stimulus from the yields they achieve, giving them the right to buy currency at the official exchange rate in freely convertible currency, after having deducted the costs of the resources, which will be higher if the quality is improved.

The marked decline in tobacco production in recent harvests in Sancti Spíritus will be stopped with the introduction of new financial incentives to transform the costs of crops and regain the credibility and confidence of farmers.

This regulation aims to rescue traditional workers or young people committed to taking land in usufruct and making it available to plant tobacco.

Currently, officials from the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) and experts from from the state sector estimate that there will not be enough growth, even though bigger steps have been taken to guarantee resources.

According to statistics, there are no more than 700 tobacco farmers to attend to some 2,000 contracted hectares.

Meanwhile, commitments to comply with the production plants in covered tobacco crops are growing, and the municipality of Cabaiguán is the one that will contribute the most in the current harvest.

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