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Cuba
Toils to Raise Sugar Output
Efforts and hard work for a more
efficient use of industrial
capacity currently mark the
Cuban sugar harvest, at times
when the sugarcane has its best
yielding.
Sugar Minister Ulises Rosales
del Toro has asserted the 2006
harvest is so far better than
that of 2005.
The island nation has increased
its industrial efficiency during
the last harvests and present
conditions are favourable to
raise sugar production, said
Rosales del Toro.
The minister assured industrial
performance and the hike of the
international price of sugar
have encouraged to draw up
strategies to produce more sugar
for export in the coming
seasons.
Cuba is also planning to expand
sugar plantations for the 2007
harvest.
Presently, the sugar price
-nearly 20 dollar cents per
pound- is higher than in the
past, especially given the use
of ethanol and the fall of
production in some countries.
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