China, Cuba sign irrigation contract

China: Cuba and China signed on Monday a contract for supplies to develop an irrigation system in Caujeri valley which is planned to rescue the potential productive capacity of the valley in Guantanamo province.

The project will allow restoring the irrigation and drainage infrastructure, and establishing an organization to operate it efficiently.

Ambasador Carlos Miguel Perera said the agreement and its execution is really valuable, according to the priority that Cuba gives to agriculture, especially food production as part of the strategy to reduce imports and mitigate the effects of the international crisis.

He recalled that this has been an important year to relations, despite the mentioned crisis, while the new project shows the continuity of those relations and their expansion. The supply includes trucks, tractors, trailers, retro excavators, and different kinds of valves.

The initiative will be executed, using part of a donation granted in 2007, and will favor vegetable, grain, and fruit production.

Chinese Liaoning Zhongyi International Economic and Technical Cooperation Co. Ltd is in charge of the new project, which expresses the good bilateral collaboration relations.

The document was signed by Chen Lan Xia, Director of the company's representative office to Havana, and Nancy Cruz, of the Donation Executing Company, on the Cuban side.

Other representatives of that Chinese company and the Cuban diplomatic mission to China also attended the ceremony.

Beijing, Tuesday, Prensa Latina