Ciego de Ávila, June 21 (RHC)-- Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, during a visit to Ciego de Ávila province, called for planting more sugarcane and thinking less about the difficulties and unfulfillable commitments.

Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, president of the Defense Council in Ciego de Ávila, reiterated that the province is obliged to grow in sugarcane and in agricultural yield, since the figures indicate that if a little more raw material is available for the next campaign, it will be based on the sugarcane left over, that is, that which is not ground by the mills.

In another part of the intervention, Valdés Mesa insisted on the need for correct planning of the sugar harvest: "Every day that goes by goes against the efficiency of the integral process of sugar production and the province was a negative example in that sense, which in the end was one of the causes that made the fulfilment of the plan impossible."

The meeting was attended by Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of Ciego de Ávila and Julio Andrés García Pérez, president of the Azcuba Sugar Group.