Guantanamo.- The machines of Argeo Martínez sugar mill, the only one that grinds sugar cane in Guantánamo, began working in the early hours of last Tuesday with the purpose of producing just over 7,000 tons of sugar, in 62 days of harvest.
In this stage of adjustment of the productive chain, the harvest process is being done well, but not so the industry that in the first 24 hours had not operated stably due to irregularities in the area of the mills, in which work was being done to solve them.
Initially Argeo Martinez had planned to begin grinding at the end of last December, but limitations with some resources, mainly fuel, delayed that moment for just over a month and a half.
Once the sugar mill has been put into operation, all the links in the production chain must carry out their task efficiently, since a short harvest like this one allows little time to make up for delays in sugar production.
Juan Carlos Martínez, director of the Guantánamo Sugar Enterprise, said that they have all conditions to fulfill the plan, since the industry, machinery, transportation, and roads have been repaired, and the difficulties with the completion of the cutting force are being corrected.
The industry has also received funding for investments in infrastructure and repaired practically all areas, such as steam generation, tilting, mills, boilers, purification, centrifugation, and waste evacuation, plus the technologically improved laboratory.
All of this must benefit the harvest in which the planned oil is achieved and the chain of non-compliance of the mill should be broken, which dates back to 2014, with the recent bitterness of the last harvest, the worst in the history of the sugar mill.
To produce the planned sugar, Argeo Martínez will have to grind 113,789 tons of sugar cane, of which 83,789 correspond to its own areas and 30,000 to Paquito Rosales, in Santiago de Cuba.
