Agricultural
development is key to continuing progress
• According to José Ramón
Machado Ventura, Council of Ministers Vice President
during extraordinary ANAP plenum, held to elect a
new president of the organization
Arianna
Ceballos
arianna@granma.cu
The importance of continuing to
perfect the country’s agricultural system was
reiterated by Vice President José Ramón Machado
Ventura, also Party Central Committee Second
Secretary, during an extraordinary meeting of the
National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) which
elected Rafael Ramón Santiesteban Pozo as the
organization’s new president.
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José
Ramón Machado Ventura (right),
from the Party Central Committee with
Rafael Ramón Santiesteban Pozo (left),
newly-elected President of the National
Association of Small Farmers.
FOTO: Jose M. Correa |
"Agricultural development is
indispensable to the continuing progress of the
Revolution," Machado Ventura said, "We very
frequently talk about what we spend importing food
and about what we could save. We need to move to
another stage, it’s not limiting ourselves to
reducing imports, we have the potential to export."
Machado Ventura emphasized the
potential shown by Santiesteban Pozo, who has
previously served as a member of the ANAP National
Bureau.
Pozo, 44 years of age, studied
accounting and finance, and holds a Masters Degree
in Economic and Political Culture. He has played a
leadership role in the farmers’ organization,
starting at the cooperative level, before serving as
provincial president in Holguín for nine years.
The new ANAP President expressed his
intention to continue working on changes currently
being implemented by the group and the country.
