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.