(1907 - 1982)
Escritor y político. Historia de las doctrinas sociales constituye su aporte historiográfico más importante. Fue nombrado Embajador de Cuba ante la OEA, con posterioridad Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores. Se le conoce como El Canciller de la Dignidad.
Agrarian and Fishery Sciences
2001 | Advances in the knowledge on the main agronomic, chemical physiological and nutritional indicators, of temporal leguminous grains and forages with possibilities to be used in animal feeding.
Main author: María Felicia Díaz y Lourdes Savón.
Summary:

The result is important to cattle production, where it addresses new feeding alternatives. It constitutes an advance for agricultural sciences, it increases the knowledge on characteristics and posibilities of plants in the country to complement monogastrics diets, which contributes to increase animal originated proteins availability, an aspect of great importance for cuban population food guarantee.

The result conbines basic, applied and strategic research Its novelty consits on: consiste :

  • Agronomic and nutritional characterization of six species of temporal leguminous in different stages of their bilogical cycle and their harvesting residuals.
  • The study of the detergent neutral fiber structure of vigna foliage flour through experimental methods, images processing and infrared spectroscopy.
  • Raw grain vigna flour levels inclusion are defined in birds and pigs diets.
  • Solid state fermentation was applied, and detergent neutral fiber and cellulose digestibility increase could be reduced, make toxines drop in a 50%.

Vigna Program World Coordinator, which certificates the high scientific criteria and practical relevance, originality, novelty, safety and scientific importance are certified by the specialists from Georgia University, Autonomous University of Madrid and Yucatán, Mexico, as well as Federal University of Lorcas. A total of 21 publications are accredited in main trend journals.