Thursday, 14 November 2019 22:00

Las Tunas Aims Increasing Sugar Production with Fewer Inputs

Written by Róger Aguilera - ACN
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Fewer cutting, loading and transport equipment will be available. Fewer cutting, loading and transport equipment will be available.

Bearing in mind that fewer resources are available this year than in 2018, the sugarcane and industrial yields will be decisive for the province of Las Tunas to produce 20 percent more sugar than the one manufactured in the previous harvest.

 

Las Tunas, Cuba.- When assessing the preparations for the harvest in the territory, which will begin in the last ten of the current month by the Majibacoa sugar mill, Pedro Jiménez, deputy director of the Sugar Company of the province, said that that fewer cutting, loading and transport equipment will be available, so that a good use of the technique and efficient repairs of the factories are imposed.

The manager explained that the start of the "Majibacoa" was planned for the beginning of November, but now it is expected on the 22nd, because a breakdown of the last minute affected two boilers, which are under repair.

However, he said, this industry - the youngest of Las Tunas, opened in 1986 - already carried out tests by milling cane. He said the "Colombia" should also start operations at the end of the current month, and the "Antonio Guiteras Colossus," on December 5.

In general, very little has been done in the repair of the vials to guarantee a good sugar campaign, said Jiménez, who considered that "if we work from now on to have a good start, it is possible to comply with sugar production, despite difficulties with resources."

Some issues must be solved before the opening of the contest; among them, the completion of the workforce in the Colombia, and the repairs of the combined cutting machines and transport, which are at 58 and 59 percent, respectively, he said.

To enlist the equipment requires assurances such as bearings, hydro motors, electrical components, metal sheets and steel for the recovery of parts. The 20 percent above the production achieved in the 2018-2019 harvest proposed by the Sugar Company means 22 thousand tons, a figure that could not be manufactured then due to serious problems with excess moisture in the fields, mainly.

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