Through a joint project between Cuba and Italy, funded by the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security and implemented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Circular Economy Center in Sancti Spíritus has been established13 / 05 / 2026
With its sights set on the first 7,000 quintals of wet paddy rice in the ripening stage in the fields, the Las Nuevas Basic Unit of Cooperative Production, part of the Sur del Jíbaro Company in La Sierpe, officially began its winter rice harvest campaign. The estimated cold rice campaign at UBPC Las Nuevas is about three thousand tons of seed sent to the Los Españoles processing industry with agricultural yields in the order of four tons per hectare
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The intense drought affecting the province of Sancti Spíritus is hitting the tobacco fields of the territory hard, where more than 40% of the water supply sources destined for this crop are affected, according to Clemente Hernández Rojas, director of the Tobacco Collection and Processing Company26 / 02 / 2026
The increased use of animal traction and electric means for the production and marketing of goods, as well as the optimization of transportation for the movement of various products, are among the actions that the agriculture of Sancti Spíritus is developing to mitigate the effects of the fuel deficit as a result of the complex situation that the country is experiencing10 / 02 / 2026
Food sovereignty is now one of the strategic pillars of Cuba's economic and social policy. In this context, the National Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Program (SAN) has become the cornerstone of institutional, community, and family efforts to guarantee stable access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally acceptable food10 / 02 / 2026
The Renewable Energy Sources project, supporting local development in conjunction with the Sancti Spíritus Electric Company, recently synchronized the first of six planned photovoltaic parks for isolated rural communities with the commissioning of an autonomous solar system in Guaraná, in the municipality of Fomento06 / 02 / 2026
Tobacco farmers in Sancti Spíritus have fulfilled their planting program for the 2025-2026 season. Isidro Hernández Toledo, agricultural director of the Collection and Processing Company, explained that the commitment was to plant 1,490 hectares of tobacco31 / 01 / 2026
Roberto Betancourt Verdecia always knew, from what he saw, that the sweat of a man, when he works well, with love and purpose, greatly improves the land, "and Martí was right," he argues, as his hands caress the freshly harvested beans in the yard of his house in the community of Pozo Colorado, in Sancti Spíritus29 / 01 / 2026
During 2025, the economy of Sancti Spíritus left its mark, a mix of successes and setbacks that statistics measure on one hand, management structures evaluate on the other, and ordinary citizens experience according to their own perspectives26 / 01 / 2026
According to Decree No. 128 on Agroecology, the Ministry of Agriculture must facilitate access to appropriate technologies for agricultural production26 / 01 / 2026
