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ALBA Analyzes Food Security Bill

CUBA, Jan 28 Agriculture ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) are preparing Thursday in this capital a constitution bill from a grand-national company, aimed at the bloc’s agricultural food security.

After over one and a half year of technical and legal discussions, the initiative will be included in a document that the Second Council of Agriculture Ministers of the group could present in the upcoming ALBA summit, to be run on April 19 in Venezuela.

"This concern an entity capable of increasing at short and mid term the production of foods and the integral rural development of member countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela)," executive vice president Elias Jaua stated.

ALBA Foods is a grand-national entity distanced from the transnational company's mercantile system. Its aim is to guarantee the supply of seeds, fertilizers, agricultural instruments for the mechanization of the country-side, irrigation infrastructure, and biopesticides, among other elements, Jaua said.

The meeting, to be concluded today, also ratifies ALBA commitments to support Haiti, a nation devastated by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Richter's open scale. (Cubaminrex - Prensa Latina)

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