Belonging to the Biopharmaceutical Laboratories company (LABIOFAM), the brand-new plant will be able to process products for replacing imports and expand the country’s agricultural development, and could in the future extend offers in exports.

The Cuban vice-president inquired about the construction schedule, over 90% complete, of this industry that will have an impact, with its start-up, on food security and sovereignty in the country.

Valdés warned of the need to guarantee the firefighting system and to incorporate the work into the natural disaster reduction plan.

The also member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba toured other agricultural areas in Villa Clara province including the Taón Production Agency, which belongs to the AZUMAT logistics company.

At La Veguita farm, in the municipality of Remedios, Valdés Mesa met and exchanged with producer Noel Rolando Benítez who has installed a small market at affordable prices at the community of Tahón, the products he harvests, besides working in the cultivation of some 30 hectares of tobacco, 24 of them of covered tobacco.

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