Technological improvements assure bigger quality in the rice production of Camagüey

The beginning of the crop of rice on the part of the Agroindustrial Complex “Ruta Invasora", is foreseen for next May 5.

Millionaire Investments in the rice industries “Tato Rodríguez Vedo” and “Cándido González”, in this county, will rebound in the improvement of the quality of the cereal and in the amplification of molinery capacities, of face to the coming crop.

Honorio Saavedra, subdirector of the Agroindustrial Complex Ruta Invasora, specified that next to the technological transformations is carried out the assembly of a compact mill in the municipality of Esmeralda that will assume the production of rice in the north area of Camagüey.

“The rice that takes place in that territory and in the neighboring Sierra de Cubitas and Minas will be processed without necessity of transferring toward Vertientes”, Saavedra assured, when referring to the setting in march of a machine of Brazilian origin that molin 0, 9 tons per hour.

The beginning of the crop on the part of the Agroindustrial Complex “Rute Invasora”, is foreseen for next May 5, and concentrates on the military farm Sierra Maestra and the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production “Rodolfo Ramírez Esquivel”, of the municipality of Florida.

The equipment of last generation, including the recently acquired croppers, will contribute to a bigger level of efficiency, to the saving of energy payees, and to the execution of the established parameters of quality in the matter prevails.

The rice fields of the center-south of Camagüey intend to overcome the figure of production of the humid cereal that dates of the year 1984, period in which gathered more than 88 thousand 044 tons.

The county of Camagüey consumes 37 thousand tons of rice to the year and the Rice Agroindustrial Complex Ruta Invasora, has foreseen a harvest of 40 thousand tons, what constitutes a very encouraging agreement perspective with the prices of the grain in the international market. (Luis Enrique Perdomo Silva)