The Organization of the United Nations for Agriculture and Feeding (FAO) qualified on this day the Cuban model on city agriculture as very successful that causes a favorable result on the feeding policy of the population.

Francisco Arias, representative of this entity in the island, declared to AIN the viability of the project that is based in the development of the sustained systems of production and use of biological methods of plague control and illnesses, among other healthy environmental procedures. He outlined this way of production widened to the whole country since 1994 is more rational and efficient than traditional agricultural practices, and guarantees a complete harmony between man, cultivation, animal and nature, and a varied offer during the whole year to the population and a waste recycling as well.

Such experience is a model for other nations of the Third World, Arias said who is attending the Sixth Sides' Conference of the United Nations Convention on the Struggle against Desertification and Draughts, with site in Havana, since Monday and scheduled until September 5. At the end of the year 2002, three million vegetable tons were cultivated also fresh spices along 36 thousand hectares dedicated to these gardens. A FAO document passed within the Convention outlines that only two countries, Cuba and Switzerland offer national support to the sustainable agriculture, placing the cultivations in the core of the agricultural development. The texts invites to the integration of such a practice to other economic and environment policies with outstanding success in the sustainable handling of the land.