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Winter Spuds Growing Season Began in Cuba
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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
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Winter Spuds Growing Season Began in Cuba
Havana, Dec 14 (acn) The first 2,000 hectares of spuds have been seeded
from Pinar del Rio to Ciego de Avila provinces, including the Isla de
la Juventud municipality. The rest of a total of 10,000 planned should
be seeded by year end or early January, 2008.
The potato, which was first cultivated at high attitudes in the Andes
Mountains, is not a tropical crop. Nonetheless, the skill and
experience of Cuban farmers has made it possible for the popular tuber
to grow in the island's warm climate with a very mild winter.
Work is intense to make up lost ground because of intermittent rains
that delayed soil preparation, re****ted Granma newspaper. Once in the
ground, farmers will wait and see how the climate behaves in the first
months of the new year.
The 2006-7 planting was severely affected by excessively warm
temperatures last winter, which were above the norm of 18 degrees
Celsius minimum at nighttime. Thus the resulting 2007 harvest was one
of the lowest in recent years.
To counteract the heat, more electric irrigation equipment has been
assigned to the provinces with the largest quantity of potatoes and
based on the climate in each given zone.
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