Erduin Delgado, director of industrial plants of the Sugar Company Camagüey, said to the AIN that after six years without grinding cane, the industry of the municipality of Esmeralda will intervene in the contest greatly improved by cardinal repairs and investments that modernized it.

In the last harvests the canes in areas purveyors of the "Brazil" were crushed in distant plants of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila, making it expensive due to the transportation and affecting the manufacturing performance.

It is expected that the sugar period kick off on December 1st with the Batalla de las Guásimas, in Vertientes.

In this moment the industrial arrangements exceed 60 per cent of the planned thing and we are confident of having the factory ready for its start, affirmed Marvelis Ortiz, head of the Room of Control and Analysis of the industry.

The "Batalla de Las Guásimas" sugar plant will process raw material from plantations near the head office and from the sugar entities Panama and Cándido González.

In addition to these two plants, also will take part in the operations the Siboney, Argentina and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

Apart from the manufacture of raw and refined sugar, Camagüey will produce in the sugar harvest electric power for the national network, from the bagasse like fuel, and food for animals with subproducts of the making of the sweet.

Cuba will open the sugar harvest in the final days of November with Mayabeque, as announced the Group AZCUBA.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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