Cuban municipality grows as important economic center of the country

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, Mar 3 (ACN) Focused on potato planting, small livestock processing, animal feed production and the assembly of one of the photovoltaic solar parks with the highest generation capacity in Cuba, the northern municipality of Remedios is consolidating as an important economic pole in the central province of Villa Clara.

The Agroindustrial Enterprise of this territory currently cultivates more than 40 hectares (ha) of potatoes, both domestic and imported, the former with a yield of 17 tons (t)/ha and the latter with a yield of 22.5 t/ha.

The company also buys and processes small livestock, with an average of 30 animals per day, and is working on the construction of a mini-industry that will produce four tons of canned food per day.

Likewise, in the Dolomite Mine, belonging to the Remedios Basic Business Unit (UEB) of the company Geominera del Centro, alternative productions of animal feed and other products are being carried out, in agreement with the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas, for the development of poultry, commented Yenny Caballero Rodriguez, director of the UEB.

On the other hand, the photovoltaic solar park of Rojas is in the last phase of execution, which intends to be connected to the National Electric System this March and will save the country 9,000 tons of generation fuel per year, said Eduardo Perez Reyes, general director of Villa Clara Electric Company, to the press.

He added that this investment, approved for 650 million pesos, will have 42,500 solar panels, installed in 1,638 tables, each with 26; it will have an extension of 32 hectares and a maximum power of 21.87 megawatts (MW).

The Rojas photovoltaic park is one of three currently under construction in this central province, where there is already a smaller capacity installation in the community of Las Casimbas Santo Domingo, with 4.4 MW of energy.