The Provincial Collection Company has delivered to the industry 1,913 tons of the 2,500 tons of mango it has to deliver to them by the end of the mango harvest season, which is expected to end in September.
During the peak of fruit harvest, in July, these productions were mainly destined to the canneries of El Mambi, in this city, and Camalote, in the municipality of Nuevitas, in the north of the province.
However, since these canneries couldn't continue working due to a lack of packaging, most of the material to be processed was redirected to the Ceballos industrial complex in Ciego de Avila, which received up to 90% of the Mango crops from Camagüey.
According to Rafael Abad, an analyst at the Provincial Collection Company, the main producing areas continue sending mango to this company and the other two industries also receive it, although in smaller volumes.
He also said that small industries also received the fruit for processing, basically to produce pulp and to prepare compote for children that is delivered in the family basket as jams for social consumption.
Misleidis Salazar Mejias, a technician in Commercial Management at the aforementioned entity, said that they were also marketing the fruit in squares and agricultural markets.
The main mango production areas in Cuba are located in the municipalities of Santa Cruz del Sur, Sierra de Cubitas, Jimaguayu, the urban farms of the provincial capital, and in the Forest Company that, as the independent producers, also give their crops to the industry.
Source: acn.cu