• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 03 / 15 / 2012

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On 2011 was successfully completed in the production of coffee and honey, among other things because of the attention that was given to workers in these sectors.
According to Tania Fernandez, CEO of the Business Group of Mountain Agriculture (GEAM), that action and others such as the increase in purchase prices, allowed for the first time in over five years, both areas raise their income levels and quality.

For his part, Alejandro Rodriguez, GEAM specialist, told AIN noted that the positive results were due also to a proper realization of economic recruitment, preparation of human capital linked to productive tasks, and daily monitoring of crops .

This encouraged the production of coffee, which reached four million 70 thousand cans during the campaign that ended in February, and responded to the contracted delivery plans.

Beekeeping, meanwhile, turned to 101 percent of their production, by collecting six thousand 696 tonnes of honey, after seven years pass without being able to meet the commitments.

This represented 42 percent of growth relative to 2010, recently told the weekly Workers, Miguel Angel Arregui, director of the Company Cuban Bee.

In yields of nectar-influenced specially-approved in 2011 the increase in purchase prices to producers in the country, who reached the 17 thousand dollars per tonne of honey.

This product is traded in the international market in about three thousand dollars a ton, he said Fernandez at the recent analysis of the results corresponding to 2011 of the Ministry of Agriculture.

To ensure sustained growth in both categories this year, it implemented a closed scheme of financing approved by the Ministry of Economy and Planning.

Gustavo Rodriguez, owner of Agriculture, explained that through this mechanism, for every dollar that a company entering the country, gets 85 cents profit that can reverse the costs and enhance their own development.