• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 02 / 01 / 2012

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The National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) announced that a group of 150 lawyers and other legal professionals will gather this weekend to discuss the existing land legislation and propose changes that contribute to its update.

The meeting discussed arrangements and approaches of farmers in the congresses of the organization, from which new laws were enacted substantial contributions to the country's agrarian law.

Arturo Aliaga, ANAP legal counsel, said that at the meeting, on 4 and 5 next, will examine the legal standards of the sector in the context of economic and social guidelines.

He said that will deepen in updating laws, the hiring of agricultural production, difficulties in terms of regulatory and legal advice to production units.

Sessions several panels in which we will study the Decrees 125, 259 and 225, credit, insurance and financial crime, among others.

The event is organized by the ANAP and the Agrarian Law Society National Union of Jurists of Cuba.

With the collaboration of the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture and Labour and Social Security and the National Organization of Collective Law, National Insurance Company, and others.

Founded on May 17, 1961, the ANAP is the mass organization of cooperatives, private farmers and their families.

It has more than four thousand 330 grassroots groups which bring together some 332 thousand members.