The vegetable canning industry in the province of Camagüey, is about 260 tons to meet the development program of mango pulp for sauces, already present in this year´s crop campaign.
Minerva Portal, director of the local Base Business Unit, told reporters that the plan amounted to 1,465 tons of raw material.
In late July the program will be finished, as there is enough fruit in the fields and the Camalote plant works with stability, she said.
According to the strategy of the organization, that plant in the northeast corner of the territory, was to operate only about 150 tons of mangoes that would be supplied from growers near Las Tunas, assisting the tomato processing extension until May.
The weight would lead by the industry of El Mambí in this city, but in late June the industry suffered a severe break in its boiler and had to divert to Camalote all of the production, plus some amount for the combined Ceballos, in Ciego de Avila, completed in the plan.
Mariela San Jose, manager of the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production (UBPC) First of January with its mango plantations on the periphery east of Camaguey, told AIN that the collection is about half of the estimated 460 tons in the campaign.The UBPC and the fields of La Forest, in Santa Cruz del Sur, are the main suppliers of fruit for the canning industry, responsible for obtaining pulp that other plants in Cuba turn into jam, and so reduce imports of food and cover basic needs.
In general the mango harvest reached 2,590 tons in the province, an inferior record of what estimated 3,000, informed Guillermo Rodriguez of the Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture in the territory.
Other destinations for production are about 30 mini Camagüey industries and markets, although its presence in the state institutions has been low.