Sugar

Sugar ministry dissolved

September 30, 2011

The Council of Ministers, in a meeting held last Saturday, Sept. 24, decided to dissolve the Cuban Ministry of Sugar (MINAZ), replacing it with the Sugar Industry Business Group (Grupo Empresarial de la Agroindustria Azucarera). Orlando Celso García Ramírez, the current Sugar Minister, was appointed in May 2010, when he was then deputy minister replacing [...]

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Greater efficiency for sugar cane harvest

October 18, 2010

The Cuban Ministry of Sugar (MINAZ), headed by Div. Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro, has called for greater efficiency and preparation for the upcoming 2011 sugar harvest that begins Dec. 1. Thirty-nine sugar mills will grind the cane into raw sugar with the mission of duplicating last year’s dismal numbers: 1.1M tons. [Granma]

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Cuban sugar ministry will be replaced

May 18, 2010

The Financial Times on the destruction of Cuba’s sugar industry: Cuba was once the world’s largest sugar exporter. But, according to a local expert, it “has been reduced to rubble by poor state management, a lack of capital, sanctions, hurricanes and other factors”. Sugar production is expected to weigh in at around 1.1m tonnes this [...]

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Sugar ministry will be closed

April 7, 2010

Reuters is reporting Cuba’s sugar ministry will close in the coming months and be replaced by a state-run corporation, according to its business sources. The wire story went on to say: plans to create the new sugar corporation and revitalise the industry by, among other things, allowing foreign investment and closing inefficient sugar mills are nearing [...]

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Sugar output is behind

March 29, 2010

Cuban raw-sugar output is about 100,000 tons behind plans to produce 1.3 million tons this season. (German research firm F.O. Licht via Bloomberg News) While the Cuban government may open sugar production to foreign investors for the first time since the 1959 revolution to stem the precipitous free fall of production.

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Week in Review

November 29, 2008

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev concluded his visit to Havana. He met with Fidel Castro and said that a new bilateral accord will be waiting for President Raul Castro when he visits Russia. Medvedev and Raul Castro signed mining and oil exploration deals and discussed “military technical cooperation.” Raul Castro said that he is willing to [...]

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