The guarapo (sugarcane juice) runs through the arteries of the Majibacoa sugar mill, in the municipality of the same name; their sugar pans are already crystallizing the first grains of the current 2023-2024 harvest, a challenge that their group takes on with the imperative of recovering its traditional efficiency.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- Engineer David Puig Brito, director of the Majibacoa agro-industrial sugar company (EAA), is optimistic about the result of the first work shift, which began on Sunday at 7:00 am and closed on Monday at the same time, a period in which they met 113 percent of the reduced standard, which he described as a good start.
Puig Brito explained that they will work around 72 hours with this plan, in which they must process about 190 tons of cane per hour, allowing them to finish the adjustment of the machinery and adopt measures to channel their efforts towards the 22,208 tons in the plan.
The manager announced that they expect to reach the goal in 77 days of milling with 60 percent utilization of the potential standard and 8.9 of industrial performance, without neglecting the rest of the quality indicators that guarantee efficiency and a good finished product.
The raw materials will arrive from their local areas and the municipalities of Manatí and Jesús Menéndez; as well as the Grito de Yara Sugar Company, from the neighboring province of Granma, which will supply about 70 thousand tons.
In the fields that provide cane to the youngest sugar mill in Las Tunas, men and cutting machines from the Antonio Guiteras and Colombia agro-industrial sugar companies will support until the Puerto Padre Colossus begins its operations and the “Colombia” awaits decisions regarding a possible honey harvest that contributes to cleaning up its finances and guaranteeing the income of its workers, commented its director Ángel Villalobos Ramírez.
The first vice president of the AZCUBA Sugar Group, José Carlos Santos Ferrer, and a commission from that Higher Management Organization (OSDE, in Spanish) witnessed the startup; then -together with political and government authorities of the province - they held a meeting with directors of all the agro-industrial sugar companies and leaders of various organizations and forms of production linked to the current harvest.
