The production of the food industry in Contramaestre is diversifying despite the obstacles posed by the U.S. blockade to the acquisition of raw materials abroad. Workers in the sector are focused on creating greater offers to achieve sustainability and the necessary commercialization of various products in the domestic market and as financial health for the farming sector.
Amauris Cabrera Álvarez, director of the Basic Food Unit of Contramaestre, said that the economic-productive strategy is being expanded with alternatives focused on local potentialities. He added that in the presence of the challenges of the national economy, its establishments show a collective and innovative action to satisfy the demands of the population in the area of food.New food production for the population
New food production for the population
Cabrera Álvarez, top executive of the food sector in this eastern Cuban territory, also explained to the local press that the diversification of production is also part of supplying the deficit of products agreed in the plan at the end of May 2022, in several of its assortments: bread, cookies, candies and mayonnaise, among others.
In bakeries, creameries, candy factories, food polygons and biscuit factories, the collective response to the limitations and challenges faced by the national economy is based on work variants to guarantee several items: cassava flour for gofio and cassava, liquors, wines, vinager, as well as dry candies and nougat made from sugar cane guarapo (sugar cane sugar cane syrup). They also incorporate sacharin for animal consumption.
With innovation and science, the food industry of Contramaestre is facing new challenges every day to guarantee as the first line in the productive combat, the production of bread for the population and the centers of social consumption, aware that quality, variety and weight of this assortment is a pending subject in the heat of the demands and opinions of the population.
