VERTIENTES, CAMAGÜEY. - With the beginning of the grinding in the sugar mill Panama of Vertientes, in Camagüey, the most extensive province of Cuba, incorporated this Saturday the third sugar producer industry, of the six that will enter functioning in the first week of the current December.
Earlier, the sugar mills Siboney, of Sibanicú and Argentina, of Florida began to work, and in the next hours the sugar factories Brazil in Esmeralda, approximately 60 kilometers to the north of the city of Camagüey, and “Batalla de Las Guásimas” in the provincial south way, will do it.
The engineer, Lázaro Álvarez Padilla, the director of the Sugar Company in the territory, affirmed that the sixth sugar mill that will complete the assets in the grinding 2018-2019 will be “Carlos Manuel de Céspedes” in the municipality of equal name who will start its machinery on the next December sixth.
The AzCuba manager in one of the principal sugar provinces of the country, assure that the early beginning of the sugar harvest and the industrial answer moved forward by the quality of the executed technological repairs, augur the fulfillment of production in the so called Small Sugar Harvest of end of Year and one of the productions of the crude higher than last years.
To the edge of the scale, where railroad cars and trucks of the direct shot were spilling its canes, workers, relatives and guests to the beginning of the harvest in the Panama, they celebrated among sounds of sugar mill and the thick smoke of the chimney, on top, the awaited event after some years of waiting and the last two frustrated sugar harvests.
The ceremony of reaffirmation of the commitments of harvest for cutters, purveyors, industrialists and transporters of the cane, was presided by the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca, and its first secretary in Camagüey, and deputy Elizabeth González Cárdenas, the president of the Provincial Assembly of the People´s Power, among other political, governmental and of the sugar union authorities.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez