Confitery of Camagüey will elevate its production of foods

Camagüey, Feb 26. The Confitery of Camagüey plan to rise in three thousand tons the production of foods for the 2009, above the registration of eight thousand of the previous year.

Edilfredo Guerra, director of the company, said that of those more than 12 thousand foreseen tons of products, around two thousand will be dedicated to the market in foreign currencies.

In the central plant located in the provincial head are the factory of dry mixtures, as the gofio, that of panque and that of crackets Pinocho, where there will be included the coconut flavors and lemon.

Also, it is the plant chocolate box Guamá marks, in which solid chocolates are elaborated, as the Cut Turquino, fillers, the Muscatel, and others, among them the Three Species, production that seeks to substitute the imports of the candy.

On the other hand that of cookies, of the town of Florida, makes the types candy and salted, and also goodies that are offered in the net of markets in City of Havana, Cienfuegos, Camagüey and Santiago de Cuba.

In the case of the industry of long pasts and cut in the municipality of Mines,it production supplies the family basket of the territory of Camagüey, and of Ciego of Ávila and Las Tunas.

For the present year the confitery has foreseen to include in the list of products the traditional gaceñiga, species of dry bread, in different grams.

The Confitery Camagüey is in Managerial Improvement and completes the norms of administration of the quality.

Greece Communist Party Affirms Solidarity with Cuba and Palestine

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 24 (acn) The 18th Congress of Greece´s Communist Party expressed its solidarity with Cuba and Palestine during its final session in Athens, in which party members elected the organizations´ central committee.

Following a four-day session, the Greek communists approved main working guidelines for their new period, which included the setting up a people´s anti-imperialist front and a program of actions in solidarity with Cuba and Palestine, Granma daily reported.

The organization unanimously re-elected Aleka Papariga as the General Secretary of the 77-member central committee.

The session was attended by 435 delegates and 400 guests from around the country, as well as 90 delegations from Communist and workers parties and progressive movements from 72 countries, including Cuba.

(Partido Comunista de Grecia ratifica su solidaridad con Cuba)

Experts Evaluate Effectiveness of Cuban Cattle Tick Vaccine

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, Feb 24 (acn) Cuban experts are gathering today in a National Workshop in this eastern city to analyze the effectiveness of the recombinant vaccine known as GAVAC against diseases transmitted to the cattle by ticks.

Specialists with the Institute of Veterinary Medicine along biotechnology and parasitology experts will also discuss the effects of the Cuban vaccine on cattle herds in the largest cattle farms in this territory.

Provincial Veterinary Medicine vice-director Zoe Debrook told ACN that the administration of the vaccine GAVAC allowed increasing the potential in local cattle raising enterprises. She added that the workshop will analyze the effects of the vaccine in several other farms and in ranches managed by individual farmers.

The recombinant vaccine, which is considered one of the major Cuban biotechnological products, began to be administered to cattle herds in 1995, while the livestock sector was waging a comprehensive fight against cattle ticks.

(Analizan hoy efectividad de vacuna cubana GAVAC)