GAF
Coffee harvest continues
Without producing a peak in the harvest, the 2021-2022 coffee harvest continues in the south eastern province of Granma.
Pedro Soto Perdomo, head of the Forest, Flora and Wildlife Department, reported that this has been caused by weather conditions, in particular insufficient rainfall in areas of the plantations with different blooms. However, in some places in the mountainous area it rains and there is a higher maturation, such as in the territories of Guisa and Buey Arriba, where more coffee is being collected; not so in Bartolome Masó, where the delay in harvesting is more accentuated. Soto Perdomo assured that there is a lot of coffee, especially in the Arabica variety, to which the robusta variety is added in some places, which guarantees compliance with the annual plan. He pointed out that in companies and cooperatives alternatives are applied to mobilize internal forces, stimulating productivity with the payment of good prices, in order to collect as much grain as possible and not lose it. The amount collected to date is 389.1 tons for 112 percent of the commitment, with good quality, while coffee sales are exceeded to the industrial processor located in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba. Likewise, the coffee planting program continues with 517 hectares, out of the 859 to be planted this year in order to fulfill it, including replanting, by having more than six million seedlings. The province carries out this activity in six municipalities, covering more than nine thousand hectares, which are served by four companies, three of which are agroforestry and one is comprehensive Agropecuaria, with 172 units and six farms managed by the Youth Labor Army; 74 percent of production is in the cooperative and peasant sector.
