Cuba increased its tobacco production in the first half of 2025, when it reached 90 % of crooked tobacco deliveries for export and exceeded 103.4 % the cigarette plan for the domestic market.
Aforementioned by the Cuban News AgencyOdelbis Carrazana Lorenzo, director of Logistics and Industry of Tabacuba, said that the production of crooked tobacco for export grew in six million units compared to 2024, covering 90 % of the expected thing for Habanos SA
The manufacture of cigarettes for domestic trade reached 201 million cajetillas after recovering the Brascuba factory in Mariel, which now operates at full capacity, he added.
In Pinar del Río, the cure houses affected by Hurricane Ian in 2022 show an increase in agricultural production compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, the production of mechanized tobacco achieved 80 % of the expected, with official expectations to normalize the deficit before the end of the year.
Last September, the Tabacuba Business Group anunicized that the resources for the 2024-2025 Tobacco Campaign were “insured”, despite the severe economic crisis that the country suffers.
TABACUBA: Resources for the next tobacco campaign are “insured”
According to the entity in charge of the harvest, “the currency scheme approved by the Cuban government has allowed that business group to have the necessary resources for production,” reports Latin press (PL).
“The fuel and other supplies that demand agricultural actions are insured and their arrival responds to the planned schedule,” the president of Tabacuba, Marino Murillo, said that the island was “ready” to start the tobacco campaign.
The tobacco, one of the main exporting lines of Cuba, is the fourth largest for revenues of Cuba and occupies about 200 thousand workers, who have reached up to 250 thousand in the peak of the harvest.
The sector suffered almost three years ago the devastating passage of Hurricane Ian, which strongly hit the tobacco infrastructure in Pinar del Río. As a consequence there were about 10 thousand of the around 12 thousand houses of natural cure of that territory, according to official data.
