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• 02 / 07 / 2009

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Deputy Agriculture Minister Juan Perez Lamas told Granma newspaper that such improvement has a great meaning for his ministry, which has faced several difficulties in the mentioned mechanism.

When those products surpass the plan, containers, transportation, warehouses and cold storages are not sufficient

Agricultural units are generally distant from the points of distribution and receipt.

The situation worsens, above all in crops like tomato, which deteriorates rapidly, while onion and other vegetables that are harvested in a determined stage and with different destinations.

As potato, cabbage, carrot, beet, onion and other crops will start being harvested after February 15, the Interior Trade Ministry is preparing cold storage to keep, preserve and distribute them.

(Juventud Rebelde)