They report on availability of wheat flour Specific situations with planned shipments that gave continuity to the production of wheat flour in the country mean that there is not enough availability of the product to guarantee bread for the regulated family basket, authorities from the Ministry of the Food Industry. Until the end of March they will not achieve the stability required to guarantee the quantities of flour, although extender products are also used that replace 15 percent of the total necessary to make the bread.
Zaily Pérez Hernández, commercial director of the Cuban Milling Company, explained to the press that in the coming days there will be severe impacts on bread production in each territory, due to the instability in the supply of raw materials in the country.
The food industry is not exempt from the consequences of the economic, financial and commercial blockade that the United States government imposes on the Island, and the issue of the arrival of the ships that bring the product becomes more complex, Pérez Hernández noted. Emerio González Lorenzo, president of the Food Industry Business Group, said that the Ministry of the sector gives it top priority, for this it organized a work system with a multidisciplinary group to look for alternatives and lessen the difficult situation.
At this time, of the five mills they have, only the one in the province of Cienfuegos is active, which produces 250 tons of flour daily, and 700 tons are needed to satisfy the demand for bread from the regulated family basket, and for the social consumption (public health, school snacks and others). istro of raw materials in the country.
They also established to negotiate with the owners of the merchandise that arrives through the ports, which although it does not cover the demand, (barely between two thousand 500 and three thousand tons) is destined for the production of bread for the regulated family basket. González Lorenzo affirmed that there is a priority on the part of the organizations involved in the port-transport-domestic economy chain to guarantee that wheat or flour reaches the mills immediately, despite the complex reality with fuel that Cuba also faces.
The country has five mills to process wheat, three in Havana, one in Cienfuegos and another in Santiago de Cuba, so when availability exists, there is installed capacity to satisfy demand. Monthly, 20 thousand tons of flour are needed just to produce the bread that guarantees the regulated family basket.
However, authorities from the Ministry of the Food Industry, together with other organizations and non-state forms of management, are looking for alternatives that facilitate the purchase of flour, while the shipments arrive, and the provincial companies in the sector deploy local alternatives, the specialists reported.
(Taken from ACN)
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