It was not enough the good piece of news of kicking off 18 days earlier in the Camalote factory the processing of tomato, Camagüey lost the opportunity again of achieving the biggest third grinding of its history, awaited since last year.

The factory of Camalote, in the municipality of Nuevitas, led the tomato grinding in the province after processing 520 tons over the 4 900 planned, while El Mambí, in Camaguey, loaded with the debts of the province, given the deficit in the supply of raw material proceeding from the central and southern territories.

Benito Vega Falls, specialist of the territorial delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture (MINAG), said that “in the south the rains of October and November killed the bedding plants, that's why the farmers had to re-sow”.

“The vegetables were affected by the high January temperatures, something atypical, and like that the scourge of the viruses carried by the white fly. There were severe damages, for example, in territories like Santa Cruz del Sur, second of the province in the tomato delivery, did not produce approximately 500 tons”, explained the specialist of the MINAG.

Vega Falls pointed out that, nevertheless the nonperformance, this year they ground over 2 800 tons with regard to the previous calendar, but were not overcome the over 6 800 tons reached in 2013.

Alejandro Ramos Álvarez, director of the factory of Camalote, also extoled that they exceeded in 117 tons the 500 hired with the Company of Gathering of Las Tunas.

The varieties UC-82, M-82 and the hybrids of recent introduction like the Hercules were the best.

In Camagüey factories there are prepared pastas and other derivatives of the tomato that are sold in the network of national commerce.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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