HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 14 (acn) The progressive growth of Cuban sugar production needs better exploitation of the lands and available resources, said vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during a visit sugar mills in Eastern Holguin and Las Tuna provinces.
Accompanied by local government and Communist Party authorities during his tour of local sugar mills in Holguin province, Machado Ventura insisted in the need to increase the yield of sugar cane plantations, through the planting of idle areas and higher efficiency and using sugar cane varieties that provide largest content of sugar.
As to investments in sugar mills Machado insisted in using the current equipment in a more rational manner and purchase what really leads to technological improvement.
Other aspects of interests addressed by the vice-president was the by-products obtain in the sugar cane campaign, like alcohol, syrups and baggase, some of which favor the production of animal feed.
The most recent figures show that the four mills operating in Holguin province produced 4 thousand tons of sugar, over their production schedules, while another sugar factory is about to join the campaign this days.
Sugar production in Holguin is expected to grow in order to reach over 300 thousand tons by 2018.
In Las Tunas, Machado also insisted in the need to achieve appropriate planting of sugar cane in order to boost stable and efficient sugar production.
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