Guantánamo. – Alberto López Díaz, Minister of the Food Industry (MINAL), in Guantánamo, checked compliance in these first months of the year with the ten work objectives for 2025 and the progress of the sector’s comprehensive development strategy in the easternmost and most mountainous Cuban territory.
At the meeting, which was also attended by Carlos Raúl Martínez Turro, Vice Governor of Guantánamo, along with vice ministers and national and provincial directors of the Ministry of National Development and Food (MINAL), the minister analyzed the progress and shortcomings in the implementation of the macroeconomic stabilization program, the increase and diversification of the country’s external income, as well as the need to increase domestic food production, the population’s main demand.
Regarding these topics, the head of the country’s Food Ministry stated that “it is essential to reduce the debts receivable and payable by Guantanamo entities, continue to increase e-commerce with QR code payments and sales, and explore all existing potential to export new products that generate the necessary foreign currency for our development.”
Topics widely discussed, in which the province’s objective is to achieve the very best results for a more effective implementation of the territorial development strategy, included strengthening socialist state-owned enterprises and their linkages with primary producers and new forms of non-state management.
