Havana/The news that the official press on Tabacuba publishes a pattern: tobacco production and, with it, the great income in currency it generates, the state has begun to deliver resources to guarantee the harvest this year. Last Friday, the local radio station Radio Guama reported That Pinar del Río now has five new tank trucks, from the Chinese brand Howo, to deliver fuel to the tobacco.
The vehicles come to join others that the company had already made available to Los Vegueros in 2024, adding a total of 11. The objective, the official press tirelessly repeats, is “to eliminate intermediaries in the process and avoid deviations.”
“The Tabacuba business group gave Pinar del Río a new batch of tank cars that guarantee direct delivery to the peasant in its farm,” said Radio Guama, who avoided clarifying whether he delivered it was to the local government, CUPET or, most likely, if the cars are under the control of the company.
The trucks, the authorities foresee, “will have a great economic impact because, before the implementation of the measure, studies concluded that the Returitian peasants only received 40% of the diesel destined for the work of the Solanácea.” The rest is not said where he was going to stop.
Tabacuba also delivered “12 trails – also Howo – with trailers, which will ensure the extraction of resources for tobacco activity from the port of the Mariel to the different territories.” The fact that the company wants to make sure that tobacco logistics also runs on its own.
In total, said Marino Murillo, president of the group, is expected that at least 7,000 vegueros will benefit from the new acquisitions
In total, said Marino Murillo, president of the group, is expected that at least 7,000 vegueros will benefit from the new acquisitions. “The fuel of the campaign that begins we already have in the country. You just have to distribute it and spend it efficiently. The less intermediaries there are, the more efficient you are. And with these pipes, we will have an advantage, we will load the fuels in the large deposits of CUPET and we will deliver it directly in the producer’s estate,” he said.
As a final gesture, the press adds, Tabacuba donated two solar panels to the necrological services of the province.
The sudden deployment of resources to attend tobacco, which have been complaining for years to meet the crops, is part of a “financing scheme implemented by the group,” the authorities explained. Within the framework of that plan, the First Supplies Store In freely convertible currency (MLC) exclusively for tobacco in Pinar del Río.
Murillo himself was present at the inauguration, which celebrated that more than “100 supplies and products necessary to guarantee tobacco production and improve the living conditions of the producers”. In the shared images, at least, they are above all common hardware articles such as brushes, hammers or screwdrivers, more useful for machinery than for harvest itself and that easily fill a list of a hundred products.
The most attractive offers, and for which the users who saw the publication on social networks already begin to show interest are the water turbines and, above all, the generating plants, although the exposed models are diesel, a fuel difficult to achieve.
Likewise, the official press mentioned that Kits of Solar Panels, Cement and Electrodometics Equipment will also be marketed
The official press mentioned that Kits of solar panels, cement and appliance equipment that were previously sold at another place will also be marketed.
A few weeks before, at the beginning of September, it began among the vegueros of Sancti Spíritus a “Development program For the intensive production of the covered tobacco layer ”, made with leaves cultivated under a fabric cover that filters the sunlight.
The initiative “already adds about 20 producers”, to which the company gives all the “scientific-technical advances necessary to obtain high quality layers for export”. The process goes from seed planting to healing, in steps detailed by the development director of the Collection and Tobacco Business, Geisa Calero de la Paz.
To this investment is added another stimulus that the press promoted with hype and saucer. At the end of August, Tabacuba delivered Six modern Mercedes-Benz Sees vegueros to “encourage tobacco production”, although the cars were paid by the guajiros of their pockets and in MLC.
