Alejandro de Humboldt National Park fosters ecological farming

 GUANTÁNAMO, Cuba, Jan 5 (ACN) Researchers from the Provincial Environmental and Technological Service Center (CESAT) in the province of Guantánamo fosters the use of biointensive horticulture (HBI bed) to promote food sovereignty in the communities around the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba’s most important protected area.
 
CESAT deputy director Gerardo Begué Quiala explained that the HBI bed is a method of small-scale ecological cultivation without machinery and agrochemicals that is gaining more and more supporters in conservation areas engaged in the production of healthy and safe vegetable and other foodstuffs.
 
A technique popularized on a global scale, biointensive horticulture aims to produce more food in smaller spaces, promote environmentally friendly practices, protect the health of the local population and strengthen the family economy in the said protected area, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 for its size, landform diversity and wealth of endemic flora and fauna.