After several years of being unproductive, the lands in the south of Ciego de Ávila now have red and white guava crops in full production for the local canning industry.
Engineer Wilver Bringas Fernandez, the general director of the Ceballos Agroindustrial Company, told the ACN that there were 615 hectares that began to yield high quality fruit, in response to Guideline 147 of the Economic and Social Policy of the PCC and the Revolution.
A combined factory and 14 smaller factories of the entity will make this fruit and mango, which coincides with the production stage of juices, nectars, creams and other highly demanded foods in Ciego de Avila and other territories.
Emerio Pino, Alexander Ramirez, and Reinaldo Cobo, who head their respective groups, receive aid from the aforementioned entity to achieve a good performance, and to prepare 460-gram guava bars, a nutrient of special qualities.
They started this production in 2009. Later, other provinces applied the experience from Ciego de Avila, which practically has no losses in the harvest thanks to its organization, discipline, and industrial efficiency.
40 percent of the more than 8,500 hectares devoted to growing fruit in this territory are used to grow guava, a figure that will increase this year.
The goal for 2020 is to reach 20 thousand hectares between mango, guava, pineapple, papaya, coconut, lemon, orange, grapefruit, mandarins, annonaceae, and other fruits, said Orlando Perez, the delegate of Agriculture in Ciego de Ávila.
Source: tvavila.icrt.cu