The sugar mill, the first of five factories in the province that concluded the current harvest, plans to keep the rhythm of operations by contributing some 2,000 tons of sugar above the 21,488 tons already produced.
According to Mauricio Martinez, industrial director of the Fernando de Dios sugar mill, in order to get that result, the factory had a prosperous industrial yield, as well as stability in the processing of raw materials, along with the workers’ effort and commitment to increase production.
The Lopez Peña factory, in Baguanos municipality, is about to fulfill its production plan of 1,800 tons of sugar.
Juan Jose Padron, deputy director of Empresa Azucarera Holguin, told reporters that until the middle of this week, the province had produced 128,000 tons, accounting for 79% of the plan for the current harvest.
He added that the plan is to mill nearly 1,000 tons of sugarcane a day in order to produce 142,000 tons of sugar as soon as possible.
Padron explained that if rains allow it, the factory will mill sugarcane until mid-May, when one of the most complex sugar harvests over the past few years, especially in January and February, due to fuel shortages, will end.
He said that sowing is at 130%, after 188 hectares over the plan of 629,000 hectares have been planted.
On the other hand, the sector is working hard to produce sugarcane byproducts such as alcohol, urea molasses, bagasse, and bagasse with molasses.
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