Cuba seeks to revive the sugar sector after its worst result in a century

Havana, Jun 27 (EFE) .- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, urged to take "a technological and organizational leap" to revive the sugar agribusiness, which closed the 2021-2022 harvest with a result of 480,000 tons of sugar, the lowest in more than a hundred years. "We cannot continue doing the same when times have changed and life is telling us that we have to go to other concepts," said the president at a meeting with managers, industrial technicians and cane producers, according to official media reports on Monday. Díaz-Canel pointed out that the scarcity of inputs since the 1990s has led to a process of "technological involution", in which the country began to have less and less cane and "a time was reached in which the plantations are in a extremely complex situation. He recalled that since 2012 the harvest plans have not been fulfilled; and each harvest in recent years yields less sugar. "This is the situation we have. We have reached a vicious circle. We want to do ...