Camagüey elaborated three thousand tons of cheese in 2009

By:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

The milky industry in the county of Camagüey, one of the more important manufacturers items of the region, elaborated in 2009 around three thousand tons of cheese.

That level of production meant saving for the Cuban economy for the concept of avoiding to care the food for the domestic necessities, mainly the supply to the tourism and the gastronomy.

The company Milky Products Camagüey, top in the country in this line, highlights in the obtaining of varieties like Patagrás, Goula, Blanco, hard and semi hard , of grateful preference, achieved mostly in the industries cheesemakers Sibanicú and The Cow.

As informed the entity, in the 2009 were carried out some improvements in the prosecution areas to elevate the quality of the product and its storage.

In the last years Cuba increased sustaintly this item of four thousand 400 tons in 1998 at 15 thousand 700 in 2008, in accordance with data of the National Office of Statistical.

The weight of the industry of the cheese in Camagüey is based on the cow milk, of which the region is the main producer of Cuba, with more than 90 million liters marketed in the 2009 by the dairies with those plants.

Population of Camagüey ages but with quality of life

The county of Camagüey is the sixth more aged territory of Cuba, where the hope of life when being born is near to the 80 years for the women and of 76 for the men.

To tenor with that panorama the Government in the county follows a program dedicated to improvements and creation of facilities for people of the third age closely, many of them activate laborly, and other contributers of ideas and experiences in different professionals disciplines.

The University of the biggest Adult stands out in that zeal, a highly valuable resource in the region of Camagüey, maxime when it is considered that one native of each four will surpass the 60 years in the 2025.

The old men represent more than 16 percent of the population from Camagüey and receive a community surveillance in all their forms, favored with 21 Houses of Grandparents, and 12 homes of old men, with home service by day. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz)

Cattle men of Camagüey for superiors deliveries in the 2010

To produce 118 million liters of milk and of them sold to the State about 107, it is purpose of the cowboys of Camagüey in the year that newly begins, what says from the tribute to the programs of the Revolution.

That tribute, responds to the birdcall of the Direction of the country to substitute imports, and allows to maintain programs of delivery of the food, at the same time that guide the people of Camagüey for paths to enlarge the distribution.

Such purposes sustain another time the biggest contribution in the cooperative and rural sector that is added what is extracted of the nascent suburban agriculture, without stopping to keep in mind the growing acting of the state entities.

During last year the cattlemen of Camagüey produced 109 million liters of milk, 94 of them sold to the State that demanded a consequent work in the industry and the transport of the Milky Company. (Pedro Paneque Ruiz)