There is a lack of flour in Cuba, bread for families is at risk

The government of Cuba, through the Ministry of Food Industry, has recognized that, due to the shortage of wheat flour, it will not be able to guarantee the bread offered to the population through the supply booklet until the end of March. “In the next few days, bread production will be seriously affected in every territory, due to the instability in the supply of raw materials,” explained the commercial director of the Empresa de Molineria (the state semolina producing company), Zaily Pérez Hernández, quoted by the official Cubadebate website. The island imports around 80% of the products it consumes. And in recent years it has signed agreements with allied countries, such as Russia, to guarantee the entry of wheat flour to make bread, a staple of the Cuban diet. The Caribbean country has five mills for processing wheat: three in Havana, one in Santiago de Cuba (east) and another in Cienfuegos (south-east). At the moment the latter is the only one in operation and produces only ...