Company of Camagüey works to increase the production of citric

The workers of the Company Sola Citric, in the municipality of Sierra de Cubitas, determine to achieve this year a remarkable growth of the grapefruit production and orange, period in the one that plan to gather 5 thousand 300 tons of those lines, very demanded in the international market.
Farms dedicated to the production of citric in Sierra de Cubitas.


The production of vegetable coal has become a promising exportable line.

Harnessed to those efforts they also assume works alternatives for the development of other fruit-bearing , the cattle raising, and the export of coal.

The program of gathering of the fruits in the current calendar represents a growth of some 2 000 tons, in comparison with the precedent stage, with a significant contribution of the areas that are exploited in an organic way, starting from the effective yields and its demand in the international market.

Little by little there have recovered the houses of cultivation of the Company Sola Citric, strongly damaged for the hurricane Ike.

Orestes Reyes Pérez, General director of this company of Camagüey, specified that they also recover the houses of cultivations to guarantee offers of vegetables to the tourism.

As part of the program of recovery of the entity, the community also intends to rescue the Festival of the Citric fruit, fraternal emulation that is carried out when concluding the crop, and that constitutes suitable moment to recognize to workers, productive units and outstanding cooperatives. (Raysa Mestril Gutiérrez)