About 120 tons of mango are expected to be harvested by the Miguel Betancourt Credit and Service Cooperative (CCS) in the municipality of Contramaestre this year. This is a productive structure that in this eastern territory is inserted in the development of the fruit trees program.
This Cooperative assures every year the productions of the demanded fruit. About how it guarantees that its productions are not lost in the field, Alberto del Toro Alarcón, president of the CCS expressed: the first thing we did was to contract the mango with all the producers of the productive structure to know the figure that the cooperative had in order to contract with the Joint Enterprise the production volumes that we have.
We process part of this mango in the mini-industry that the cooperative owns and the other part we offer to the Mixed Company. We do this every year and we have had no difficulties in the commercialization of mangoes because we have taken all the necessary measures, as well as with the producers and with the collection companies that we have contracted.
Regarding the mango route and about those aspects that have affected an adequate mango commercialization from the field to its processing and distribution in previous contests, the Anapista representative argued: that has to be an organizational problem of the cooperatives because our municipality has the privilege of having a mixed industry that processes enough tons of mango.
The first thing we focus on is the seriousness of our producers in the term of the harvest, the required quality of the mango so that there is no affectation neither of the producers nor of the company to which we commercialize because we do not let lose a mango in our cooperative, that is a task that is given to the board of directors so that the commercialization of the fruit does not affect us.
Journalist: You consider that the problem of previous struggles has been in the contracting.
Alberto del Toro Alarcón: Yes, and this has harmed many cooperatives because after you contract the mango you have a guarantee for that production because it is understood that both parties have the responsibility, us to harvest and commercialize it and the other company to buy and process it.
Del Toro Alarcón also said about the role of the mini-industry in the insurance of the harvest as well as other elements that influence the development of the mango contest and the management of the cooperative, all with the purpose of not letting the fruit lose in the field.
