Cuba expects a 12 percent sugar production increase in the 2016-2017 sugar campaign with respect to the previous season when the economic sector failed to meet production schedules by 4 percent.
Analysis and Informatics director with the Sugar Conglomerate Azcuba, Dionis Perez, told PL news agency that 54 sugar mills will operate in the harvest, with 45 of them starting in December and the remaining 9 factories will start engines in January.
The official said that Cuban plantations have enough sugarcane to process and thus meet production schedules, expected to surpass those of the last campaign when sugar mills reported 10.27 tons of sugar per every 100 tons of processed sugar cane.
The official also said that other conditions favor the process, such as the purchase of new harvesting equipment. He said that new harvesters will assume 55 percent of mechanical cane cutting, meaning 96 percent of all raw materials for the industrial process.
Meanwhile, the number of manual cutters will be small and limited to areas where it is difficult for mechanical harvesters to operate due to irregular landscape.
The upcoming sugar campaign has also been favored by appropriate repairs and maintenance of the industrial equipment and machinery as well as by the training of personnel to be involved in the process.
For long, Cuba was the largest sugar exporter in the world and at present the local industry looks at its gradual recovery. The 2015-2016 sugar harvest did not meet its production plans particularly due to excessive rainfalls, industrial inefficiency in some territories among other objective and subjective factors.
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