GRANMA.— José Ramón Machado Ventura, second secretary of the Party Central Committee, inspected the progress of the current sugar harvest in the province and spent time reviewing the productive growth projections through 2018 for each of the five mills and their sugarcane fields; whose initial predictions he described as too cautious and insisted they be reevaluated with objectivity and entrepreneurial spirit, without being too optimistic.
“It is necessary to offset growing investments made in the industry over recent years, with concrete results. The modernization of mills, the introduction of equipment and technologies to improve sugar fields, extensive cultivation and irrigation will continue in a progressive manner; but we must ensure that this will impact on the increase of cane yields, the increase of planted areas and the industrial use of the mills,” he stated.
Machado Ventura toured factories and spoke with workers at the Enidio Díaz, Grito de Yara and Arquímedes Colina mills; the first, at the forefront of industrial efficiency in the country; the second, with a more positive start to the harvest than those of previous years, and the third, recovering from a few initial setbacks.
Meeting with the directors of the Niquero and Bartolomé Masó mills, he observed the stable progress of the Roberto Ramírez plant and the sugar cane growth prospects for the municipality; while strongly criticizing representatives of the Masó mill for the notable evidence of lack of productivity, the inefficient use of cutting technology, under use of human capital and ineffective administrative leadership.
In Santiago de Cuba, the second secretary of the Party Central Committee reiterated the need to produce more sugar cane, essential to ensuring the primary material which will enable the sustained growth of sugar production - an imperative for the territory, still far from reaching its productive potential and in need of mills to consolidate agro-industrial efficiency.
In Guantánamo, Machado Ventura presided an analysis of the progress of the sugarcane program through 2018, at which time he highlighted that to achieve the established targets growth must continue in several areas (above all irrigation), with a greater agricultural yield of up to 50 tons per hectare.
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2014-12-16/machado-ventura-praises-sugar-harvest-progress-at-mayabeque-mill
http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2014-12-23/off-to-the-best-possible-start
