The start of the 2023-2024 sugar harvest in Las Tunas is expected on December 20 when the Antonio Guiteras sugar mill, in the municipality of Puerto Padre, begins milling, one of the two summoned in the province.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- A few days later the “Majibacoa” will enter into operations and, although the economic conditions are very complex, together, they will produce some 61,500 tons of sugar, as reported at the 8th Plenary Session of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
This economic activity has had the maximum attention of the political organization and that is why emphasis is placed on the training of human resources with the capabilities to promote agricultural and industrial work, as pointed out by Manuel Pérez Gallego, a member of the PCC Central Committee and its first secretary in the territory.
Now, intensive work is being done on repairs, both to the industries and the machinery and equipment involved in cutting, loading, and transporting the cane. This management includes the “Colombia” and “Amancio Rodríguez” factories, which will make molasses to produce alcohol and animal feed if the country's conditions allow it.
Pérez Gallego insisted that yields can be increased through better use of available raw materials, increased labor and technological discipline, and greater attention to the different cooperatives, workers platoons, and work shifts.
In the plenary session, the investment process, the territorial development strategy, and the housing construction program were also evaluated, activities with delays in their schedules due to the lack of material resources, especially cement, steel, and wood.
The directorates of Communal Services and Sports, the Fishing Company, and the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture have an impact on this aspect, also affected by insufficient control and little allocation of fuel for the transfer of materials to the works.
Regarding the construction of housing and the recovery of the housing fund, it was reported that there are delays, especially in home basic cells, the adaptation of state premises, the elimination of dirt floors, and Priority for mothers with three or more children under 17, of which 2,159 were identified.
Regarding the attention to the various modalities of non-state economic management and micro, small, and medium-sized businesses, Pérez Gallego urged to multiply training actions and for these entities to generate goods and services that satisfy the growing needs of the population.
Governor Jaime Ernesto Chiang Vega said that the results of the Havana International Fair and the Industry and Commerce Fair predict that, in 2024, the local economy could take off, without neglecting the traditional sectors of sugar and agricultural production, in addition to the industrial sector.
Another topic of analysis was the prevention and confrontation of crime and illegalities, phenomena that are discreetly reduced as a result of the actions carried out in the eight municipalities, although a high number of thefts in the food stores belonging to the Ministry of Domestic Trade, as well as cases of theft and slaughter of larger cattle remain.
Those present agreed that these measures are not enough, so social care and prevention teams in the communities must be strengthened to ensure the protection of state resources and increase the revolutionary surveillance in state entities and rural and residential areas.
Finally, the residents of the municipality of Amancio -headquarters of the provincial event for the anniversary 65 of the Triumph of the Revolution- were conveyed recognition that was extended to all Las Tunas people, for the firmness and will shown during the current year, despite of very difficult circumstances.
