• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 01 / 06 / 2011

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2011.01.05 - 11:53:15 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- The Cuban Vice Minister of Agriculture, Juan Perez Lamas, told ACN that the program for the recovery of fruit trees in Cuba will result in the increase of the exports of juice concentrate.

Perez affirmed that with this strategy they intend to produce over 20 tons per hectare, which will suffice for national consumption and the reduction of imports, an economic priority amidst the current financial global crisis.

He noted that Cuba has enough resources and facilities to produce juice concentrate of citrus and other fruit.Nowadays, there are several cooperation projects with member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA), which favour exports.

The Jaguey Grande experimental station of the Victoria de Giron Enterprise, in Matanzas province, is developing national crops for exports. Its specialists and researches are developing a new variant of tangerine, whose maturing process and harvest moves forward to the ends of August and September.

Data from the Ministry of Agriculture notes that this organization is planning to expand the production of citrus and fruit to more than 100 cooperatives with all technology in the interest of boosting productivity.

Source: ACN