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.