HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 14 (acn) Ciego de Avila has become the first province in Cuba to produce 100 thousand tons of sugar in the current harvest despite the severe drought first and then excessive rain.
The workers of the Enrique Varona Gonzalez sugar factory in the municipality of Chambas were finish the harvest with high numbers of sugar while the Ciro Redondo center ended first.
During a meeting with workers and technicians at the Varona Gonzalez sugar factory, Feliz Duarte Ortega, first secretary of the Communist Party in Ciego de Avila said that the province is now in better conditions to finish their plan of production in the current harvest with over 193 tons of sugar.
The also member of the Central Committee of Cuba's Communist Party added that the industrial yielding have increased and urged for an effort in the coming 60 days in order to recover the production deficit with four consecutive successful harvests in the territory.
Engineer Norelvis Gallo Saroza, director of the Sugar company in the province praised the men and women that work at the Enrique Varona which have registered over 10.50 percent of the yield and are among the highest in the nation, although their sugar cane plantations are located in low and swampy areas in the northern part of the province.
He added that some 40 tons of sugar cane in the municipality of Esmeralda in Camaguey province will be refined in the Primero de Enero refinery.
Jose Antonio Perez Perez, general secretary of the sugar labor union on the island recognized the contribution of the mechanized cutters in the province where 20 have cut over a million delivering each one some 11 thousand 500 tons or more raw materials to the factories.
The four sugar refineries in Ciego de Avila are also producing type B honey for cattle, alcohol and bagasse.
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