Such was the assessment by Cuban ambassador to Nicaragua, Iliana Fonseca, when touring the facility providing technical support to more than five thousand producers in this countr’ys western region.

Inaugurated in 2017, the center is located in the Posoltega municipality, in the department of Chinandega, more than 100 kilometers from Managua, and specializes in the study, processing and transformation of different varieties of Moringa, a tree with high nutritional properties, which the late Cuban leader praised and closely studied.

Equipped by a nearly 50 staff, the research center also works on the adapting such crops as sesame, sorghum, soybeans, bananas, fruits and other crops typical of the Nicaraguan dry corridor.

“We consider this an important way to continue establishing links and strengthening and expanding our bilateral relations in the research area with similar centers in Cuba”, Fonseca said in a meeting at the center with municipal authorities and the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA).

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