Guantánamo.- Guantanamo Sugar sector’s workers in the easternmost of the Cuban provinces are preparing conditions to start the 2024-2025 harvest in the next few days, a stage in which they are called to be more efficient in the face of the decrease in raw material that the only active sugar mill in Guantánamo Province will receive due to the decrease in sugarcane yields in recent years.
In this harvest, it is expected to process around 14 thousand tons of sugarcane during about sixty-two work days to produce more than seven thousand tons of sugar, a figure still far from what is required to guarantee domestic consumption.
During this period, the workers in this sector will also contribute more than six thousand tons of honey for the production of sugarcane by-products, another priority for this stage in which significant actions are also being carried out to contribute to the energy efficiency of the sugar industry.
Special work is being done to solve the work detected in the test carried out last Thursday at the Argeo Martínez sugar mill, in order to certify the quality of the repairs carried out in the coming days in order to incorporate this mill into the 15 that will be grinding in the country during this harvest.
In order to ensure compliance with the planned sugar production, Guantánamo will receive equipment from other provinces to support the sugarcane harvest and will once again have raw material from Santiago de Cuba.
