Tabacco campaignSan Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba.- The Basic Unit of Cooperative Production ‘’Batalla the las Guásimas’’ of this town hosted the national event for the start of the 2016-2017 Tobacco Campaign. Indeed, this productive way was the most outstanding in the previous season and therefore received the Seal ‘’75th Anniversary of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba (CTC)’’.
The event also gave the Distinction ‘’Carlos Baliño’’ to workers with remarkable results and recognized the UBPCs ‘’Felipe Herrera’’, presided by Armando Trujillo, Labor Hero of the Republic of Cuba. Moreover Bladimir Andino Ruibal, Director of the Enterprise Storage and Benefit of Tabacco ‘’Lazaro Peña’’, presented the document with the commitment of workers from 10 UBPCs a CPA and 11 usufructuaries to José Antonio Valeriano Fariñas, member of the Central Committee and First Secretary of the Communist Party in Artemisa.
Attended the event: Idael Perez, Vice Minister of Agriculture; Nidia Garcia, General Secretary of the Tobacco Union and Justo Luis Fuentes Diaz, President of the upper bdy of the Tobacco Enterprise. This campaign aims to plant 690 hectares in the area of the Enterprise ‘’Lazaro Peña’’. So far they have planted 22 hectares.