In the exchange, linked by videoconference from the Palace of the Revolution with the 13 territories involved in the harvest and in which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa participated, the implementation of the new concept for planning the harvest was reviewed. .

According to Julio Andrés García Pérez, President of AZCUBA, it is about planning the harvest so that it is objective, flexible and, although small, with good practices, concentrating resources in fewer plants to achieve greater efficiency.

Sustain the harvest, he said, in the real financing that may be available and under the principle of guaranteeing internal consumption and obtaining derivatives of that production, such as animal feed, alcohol and honey that allow an export plan depending on the prices in the market.

The plan will focus on a new business model, where the planning is financial and not only measuring sugar production, considering the circular economy as a priority, as well as the science and innovation model, said García Pérez.

According to him, 6,574,000 tons of cane must be milled and 455,198 tons of sugar produced, destined for the Family Basket and other consumption of the economy such as tourism, medicines, industrial production and for export.

Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca specified that it is essential to rescue discipline in everything we do. The works are going well, there is a good response from the sugar producers, but the quality certification of the repairs by the AZCUBA technical teams is essential.

Tapia Fonseca considered it essential that the workers control how much they are going to earn each day, each week, from the main tasks, and that they feel that if the central does not grind their economic results they will not be good, because it has already been clarified that this year there will be no more subsidies for losses in the sector.

Efficiency indicators are the main weapon of this harvest, which will be “the beginning of sugarcane recovery in the country,” predicted the deputy prime minister, who also drew attention to the constant monitoring that AZCUBA directors and the main authorities must provide. of the territories to the repair and maintenance work to guarantee the following sugar dispute in the mills that do not grind in it.

(Taken from the site of the Presidency)

The sector has to “work like a family, without distortions and inaccuracies, and with a different perspective on direct links between producers and service entities,” Tapia Fonseca said, when appreciating, based on information, aspects related to the mechanical hustle and bustle towards the interior of the mills, the agricultural machinery, and the automotive and rail transport that will intervene in the contest.

The deputy prime minister, accompanied by Julio Andrés García, president of the Azcuba Group, and by specialists from the sector, learned about the actions carried out in Heriberto Duquesne (Remedios), Quintín Bandera (Corralillo) and Héctor Rodríguez (Sagua la Grande), the only ones in the province that will manufacture crude oil.

In October it is estimated that the mechanical adjustments will be completed to guarantee the readiness of the industries in a discrete harvest in terms of processing volumes, but necessary for the national economy, he said.

The criteria coincided in pointing out that, despite the start-up of other plants that will process cane destined for molasses for the production of alcohol and animal feed, the strategic gear that will be established by other entities in the industry, suppliers of raw material and provision of services, is decisive. , with the three mills in campaign.

The electrical affectations that stop the mechanical adjustments, the limitations of industrial gases and accessories for welding, the adaptations of roads and railways, figured in the subjects object of analysis.

The planting of cane, agricultural yields —still far from the aspirations—, the feeding of the labor groups in sugar operations and the salary according to the productive contributions, were the object of systematic observation.

The Heriberto Duquesne plant, an entity that is moving towards a complete agro-industrial diversification, will be supplied with its own raw material and from areas belonging to its counterpart José María Pérez (Camajuaní), with which it will guarantee molasses and guarapo to the distillery, as well as crude and bagasse directed to the Chiquitico Fabregat refinery (Zulueta), in a systematic production chain.

On Saturday, in Quintín Bandera, Tapia Fonseca specified the need to “unblock the bureaucracy that exists in the sector to deliver material resources, depending on the existence, availability and needs of Villa Clara’s factories,” and directed quality repairs for mills above the 70% of the potential norm.

There they will have a reinforcement of workers from Panchito Gómez Toro, from Quemado de Güines —now in technological investment actions—, in addition to raw material and cane cutting and shooting equipment from that industry; as well as the Ifraín Alfonso (Ranchuelo) and the neighboring George Washington and Carlos Baliño (Santo Domingo), necessary to produce some 23,000 tons of raw sugar and another 28,000 of refined sugar.

In Héctor Rodríguez, with better strategic clearance in the actions to be carried out by that sugar colossus, Tapia Fonseca reiterated the need for labor groups to achieve “creative thinking, and convert agro-industrial preparations and the harvest into an effective way of seeking answers to problems that arise.”

That mill, together with the raw material from its plantations, will receive cane from areas belonging to Perucho Figueredo and Abel Santamaría (Encrucijada), entities in charge, like the others, of support in cutting and shooting equipment for collection centers and the tilter .

Vigilance in the payment for the quality of the cane, the eradication of monetary debts with the producers, and the discipline and control of agro-industrial tasks were also included in the extensive analysis, and given the economic complexities -said Tapia Fonseca-, the challenge is to carry out a harvest efficiently.

(With information from the Vanguardia newspaper)