HAVANA. – Cuba will host the 4th International Meeting on Agro-ecology and Sustainable Agriculture later this month to showcase its agricultural progress, local media reported Monday. About 200 agricultural experts, producers and government representatives from 20 countries and regions are to participate in the event, to be held on November 17-24 in the western province of Mayabeque, official Prensa Latina news agency said.
The meeting will focus on food security, sustainable food production, ecological farming, and protection of natural resources and the environment. Cuba’s “agricultural progress in the areas of cooperatives, diversification and commercialisation of agricultural production” will be displayed at the meeting, it said.
Two panels will analyse the challenges facing the agricultural sector in Cuba and the world, it said. – Xinhua.



