Despite the effects imposed by climate change, the coffee harvest in Maisí Municipality, in Guantanamo Province, is well on the road to the recovery program of plantations that is being undertaken throughout the province, aimed at achieving large production volumes of this exportable item.
With the beginning of the coffee harvest in the largest coffee producing municipality of the country, until a few years ago, it is purpose to achieve gradual growth in the grain collection.
Maisi coffee growers must produce more than 43 thousand cans of beans in this harvest, for which they recover coffee trees and shade plants, apply more advanced technologies in the areas, while they prepared ecological pulper plants and means for the transfer from the plantations in the six management centers they have.
In the Guantanamo Province, the coffee recovery program can extend positive experiences gained such as those of the workers of the Cooperative Production Unit, Iraelda Marzo García, from Casimba in the end of the locality.
According to Alberto Fernández Marzo, president of the UBPC, there is no rest from the passing of the devastating hurricane Matthew and from the very beginning of the collection of the first grains, he emphasized, that every grower and relative should be aware of playing the role that they ought to.
In this harvest, the workers of the UBPC, Iraelda Marzo García, foreseen to achieve 50 percent of the more than 13 thousand cans that were collected before the cyclone, with the cultural attention to the plantations and the organization of the material resources essential for the harvest.
To date, Maisí collects more than 15 percent of the estimated amount and reports some 3 thousand 200 cans of coffee beans in the fields, which responds to the effort to fulfill the plan to recover the crown of the largest coffee producer in the country.