• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 04 / 09 / 2012

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Through saving, import substitution and increased productivity innovators of Villa Clara and Guantánamo provinces have supported the development of the Cuban economy in 2011.

In keeping with the updated economic model of the country, members of the National Association for Innovation and (ANIR) provided dissimilar solutions to maintain the operation of machinery and technologies virtually obsolete in both territories.

Iliana Ramirez Leon, president of the organization in the central province of the island, told AIN said the economic impact of more than four thousand 200 innovations applied in producing entities, exceeded 17 million pesos.

Another benefit of the actions of the movement in Villa Clara was saving 381 thousand kilowatts and two thousand tons of oil a year.

Meanwhile, Mario Luis Pineda Romulus, provincial advisor of the association at Guantanamo, said that thanks to the manufacture of spare parts, clothing and craft lathe woodworking shops, the province had better yields in the production of coffee, cocoa and honey, among other items.

The president also ANIR in the municipality of Imías said that the actions of these workers contributed to the town about 230 thousand dollars.

In search of higher yields of production in the Caribbean nation, today it is essential to the generalization of experiences as those exhibited by the two territories, as well indicate Salvador Valdes Mesa, general secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, in the recent national balance ANIR.

However, both representatives agreed that there are problems that hinder the favorable performance of the association, including the absence of thematic plans and the failure to include in the budget activity of the entities.