Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production

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Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production

STORY: Cuba produces bio-fertilizers, bio-stimulants to increase agricultural production DATELINE: May 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: Havana CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE/SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the production of bio-fertilizers and stimulants 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): ALEJANDRO FALCON, Head of Group of Bio-Active Products at National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Cuba STORYLINE: Cuba is working on the production of bio-fertilizers and bio-stimulants in search of a model of sustainable agriculture as the country faces economic, commercial and financial restrictions caused by the U.S. sanctions. At the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Cuban province of Mayabeque, some 30 kilometers from the capital Havana, chemical laboratories are manufacturing PECTIMORF and QUITOMAX, bio-stimulants of natural origin constituted of a mix of pectic oligosaccharides that are biologically active in plants and utilize chitosan polymers. According to the head of the Group of Bio-Active Products at

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