The event, which will end tomorrow at the International Conference Center, welcomes more than 400 participants and 100 guests.

According to ANAP’s national president, Félix Duarte, all members of the organization will be represented: usufructuaries, owners, tenants, and peasant families.

In addition, presidents of Agricultural Production Cooperatives, Credit and Service Cooperatives will attend, as well as the organization’s executives at all levels.

Duarte explained to the press that on this inaugural day there will be three working commissions aimed at analyzing the structural strengthening of ANAP, its political work, with special emphasis on the work with the youth of the sector; and the Economic Commission will address the productive and economic issues essential for the peasantry.

Likewise, this Friday the new statutes of the organization will be approved and the National Committee will be elected.

He detailed that on May 17, Peasants’ Day, which commemorates the signing of the First Agrarian Reform Law, a plenary session will discuss and approve the central report of the event.

ANAP’s small producers and cooperatives account for 45% of Cuba’s cultivable lands; however, they generate 70 to 80% of the production that has an impact on the Cuban economy and directly on the population’s food supply.

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