{"id":14545,"date":"2025-11-18T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:24:52","slug":"maisi-municipality-to-boost-charcoal-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/maisi-municipality-to-boost-charcoal-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Mais\u00ed Municipality to Boost Charcoal Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carbon_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carbon_1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carbon_1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/>Guant\u00e1namo.- The municipality of Mais\u00ed produced approximately 70 tons of charcoal up to October 23rd. While this amount falls short of the production forecast, it confirms the progress and efforts made in the Cuban eastermost end for recovering one of its traditional industries.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, the charcoal produced in R\u00edo Seco and other locations along the Mais\u00ed coast was renowned. This reputation is being re-established, and efforts are underway to boost the production of charcoal in areas like La Mesa, where uvilla (cape gooseberry), lily, and carbonero (a type of tree) yield a high-quality product due to the hardness of these abundant woods.<\/p>\n<p>To reverse the recent downturn, Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez Marzo, director of the Mais\u00ed Agroforestry Company, explains that &#8220;the first step was to engage in dialogue with the charcoal producers, provide them with better support, and supply them with chainsaws and tools. We reached an agreement with the producers to pay them 12 pesos per kilogram. Therefore, the charcoal producers&#8217; income is around 12,000 pesos for a one-ton kiln.&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo.- The municipality of Mais\u00ed produced approximately 70 tons of charcoal up to October 23rd. While this amount falls short of the production forecast, it confirms the progress and efforts made in the Cuban eastermost end for recovering one of its traditional industries. For many years, the charcoal produced in R\u00edo Seco and other locations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14548,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions\/14548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}