Will contribute Camagüey 81 products to substitute imports

Camagüey, Without including the sugar refine, the honeys and those derived milky, strong lines in the economy of Camagüey, this oriental center county of Cuba, will contribute presently year 81 products that substitute imports, of them 28 they constitute exportable funds.

The main emphasis is centered in the production of agricultural foods, all time that the country pays around a thousand 500 million annual dollars for that concept, calculates overcome in the 2008 by the slides price-crisis of the world market.

The biggest national expenses of foreign currencies for the import of foods are used in the acquisition of rice, diverse grains and powdered milk, productions in which Camagüey increases its results in connection with years precedents. In coming December the cattlemen of here, seek to close the storing of 102 million liters of milk.

Next to the delivery of unproductive lands in usufruct, the agricultural and cattle companies of the ministries of the Agriculture, of the Sugar and the rural sector, multiply the crops of state rice and in small parcels of a farming movement in popular denominated ascent, and diverse bean varieties are planted, corn and fruit-bearing. The feeds of bull, with the controlled shepherding and I think Creole it contributes considerable tons to the tourism and the local consumption.

The agricultural county par excellence and punctual of the Cuban acuiculture, multiplies the seed of claria alevines, red tilapia and other species of fresh water, processed in different ways groceries in the municipal and provincial industries.

On the other hand, the Industry of Materials of Construction, increases the production of refractory, antacid bricks, refractory mortar, hydraulic tile of terrazo and other lines that replace imports.

However, the topic of the substitution of imports and of the exportable funds, was approached in the current October by the Council of the Provincial Administration in Camagüey (CAP), where coincided in that many local productions of quality can and they owe potenciate to increase the number of products that contribute to the saving of foreign currencies and the increase of the family basket. (Rolando Sarmiento Ricart)