Osvaldo Hurtado’s Guajira experience feeds a Sancti Spiritus farm

For a farmer, sitting back and focusing only on limitations is the worst option for making the land productive, even if today’s problems hinder your aspirations, asserted Osvaldo Hurtado Borroto, a farmer from the province of Sancti Spíritus who, through wisdom and good practices, nurtures his farm.

Hurtado Borroto’s conviction reached the ACN from the shade of the ancient male mango tree, “which should be the symbol of these places,” in the Madrigal area, very close to the junction of the Sancti Spíritus-La Sierpe highway, where his crops are grown.

About five years ago, I came to this farm belonging to the Mártires de la Chorrera Credit and Service Cooperative, and at first glance, reality shook me, he emphasized. The undergrowth dominated, it was practically the only thing to be seen, and a mango plantation that, at that time, inspired pity and little hope.

But a peasant from birth, in my hometown of Los Tramojos, and with many a peasant embankment undone, I told myself that I had to take a stand because I was here to produce, he recounted.