The coffee crop in Guantanamo is progressing favorably with the collection of some 326,497 tons of Arabic coffee grain to date, which represents 60 percent of the plan foreseen in this variety and 36 percent of the estimated total amount.
Armando Fong Berguerich, specialist of the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture that attends this crop explained that in the fields there are enough grains to reach the agreement of the harvest amounting to 1,877 tons of gold coffee.
He also said that maturation control is achieved with a productivity of 2.5 cans per collector and 93 percent of the coffee collected is expelled with a high demand by producers in order to harvest a cherry tree with characteristics suitable for export
The Baracoa municipality stands out for the efficiency in the collection and delivery of the grain with high quality parameters which allowed it to achieve the estimate and continue contributing to the province’s yield.
Meanwhile, Maisí, once the largest coffee-producing territory in the Cuban High East, experiences a considerable recovery, after Hurricane Mathew, and the producers aim to collect at the stage, about 410 tons of the aromatic grain.
In the Guantanamo Mountains, coffee growers overlap the fuel deficit with a greater use of animal traction and the use of alternative reservoirs against the lack of bags, without affecting the transfer of coffee grains to the processing plants.