Havana/The production of milk in Guantanamo faces a serious problem: the trigger decrease in livestock mass. Only in 2024, the province lost 12,000 heads due to theft and illegal sacrifice, or because We will overcome.
Of that total, 8,800 were cows, mostly incorporated into milk production. Of them, 3,800 were stolen or sacrificed And 5,000 died due to lack of food, explained the medium. “It is a reality that producers, not to mention feed, lack foods such as honey, urea, bagacillo, and supplies such as wires and staples,” said the provincial newspaper, which, discreetly, also mentioned that the guajiros ” They have faced difficulties with the payment of cash, all of which makes the activity difficult and demands more work. ”
The Guajiros “have faced difficulties with the payment of cash, all of which makes the activity difficult and demands more work.”
The article also adds that Guantanamo, since it is not a livestock territory due to its geographical, mostly mountainous geographical position, faces difficulties to guarantee the ideal conditions for livestock.
According to the text, the Niceto Pérez municipality, which has “more livestock potential” in the territory, is practically dry, because in 2024 it did not rain even with the passage of Hurricane Oscar. The streams, lagoons, tranques and other sources of supply in the place have no water, “hence it breaches the collapses.”
The sum of these problems “has determined that there are less and less cattle in the province and, in fact, less milk, a vital line in human food, especially children.”
During 2024, the province delivered to State 3,117,100 liters, which, although “represented compliance with the plan”, was a production “very low and is not enough to meet the minimum needs of the territory.” To underline the deficit, We will overcome Compare what Guantanamo produced in the 80s, when about 8,000,000 liters of milk came to sell to the industry.
The official newspaper urged to serve this sector of the population, as a “spiral increase in the value of powdered milk” is recorded “
Because of this, in the territory “it is impossible” period is greater ”. The official newspaper urged to serve this sector of the population, as a “spiral increase in the value of the powdered milk In the international market, which increasingly limits the country’s possibility to acquire this product ”to give minors.
To try to turn the situation, he said the environment, also giving a stress to the producers, it is necessary to “better mobilize the productive forces and raise awareness of each producer of the need to deliver to the last liter of milk possible. In this situation the diversion of food is inadmissible. ”
The livestock mass in the country today officially records less than 3,000,000 cows, or half of what was in 1958
Low milk production It is replicated In all the provinces of the country, where it is not possible to guarantee that the product reaches the tables of the Cubans. There are plenty 3,000,000 cowsor half of what was in 1958, before the arrival of Fidel Castro.
That year there were 960 million liters of milk, almost half a liter per capita, according to the Statistical Year Book of the UN and the former Ministry of Finance of Cuba, while the Meat consumption It was 81 pounds per person, or 6.7 monthly pounds, one of the highest in the world and the third highest in Latin America, behind Uruguay and Argentina.