Cuban sugar on the threshold of regenerative agriculture

In mid-November, the sugarcane harvest traditionally begins in Cuba. In the last 2021-2022 campaign, about 480 thousand tons of sugar were produced in the country, 36 mills crushed just over six million tons of cane. This was the lowest level of production in over a hundred years, writes the portal www.cubadebate.cu. This year, before the harvest campaign, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called for more sustainable sugar production, rethinking the fundamentals of production. During an online meeting with the leaders of the 13 Cuban territories involved in the 2022-2023 production process, it was announced that this time they will operate fewer sugar mills, 23, and only the most efficient and high-tech ones, supplying by-products and sugar production - raw material for alcoholic beverages, syrups and animal feed, these goods can be exported at higher prices on the foreign market. Sugar mills must process 6,574,000 tons of sugarcane during the harvest period to produce 455,198 ...