Many times there is a gender distinction when it comes to agricultural production and above all, when it comes to who participates directly in this work at the foot of the furrow in the field.
The mission of planting and harvesting food in remote times was considered an activity where the male sex was too much.
Today, women, with their leading role, are an entity that brings creativity to this activity.
Yenia Pupo Cruz, 47 years old, the mother of 2 teenagers, gets up when the sun barely rises to give her all in a task that she combines with the management of the Rodobaldo López Olivera Credit and Services Cooperative, in the municipality of Cardenas.
"I am proud to carry out this agricultural work, representing the women who give their all to produce food for the population," said the farmer when she expressed her satisfaction with such efforts.
”Here we alternate various crops with vegetables, milk, meat from major and minor cattle. At this time we promote rabbit breeding. Given the current epidemiological situation in the country, all members of this cooperative are struggling to give more in these tasks. It is essential, "he stressed. (By Natacha Prado Hernández. Taken from the Girón newspaper)
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