Havana/Children, elderly and sick do not access subsidized milk in Santa Clara. The volume of product deliveries in the Villaclareño municipality is “well below the 16,000 liters a day that claims the territory,” said the newspaper Vanguardthat, despite not specifying the amount, he points out that “the sales of the dairy remained, at the end of December, to 74%”, with a missing 4,160 liters. However, the figures provided do not quad, and the situation has visions of being even worse.
The text indicates that the total product delivered to the State was 1,264,190 liters at the end of December and that this represents “a decrease of 77.4% compared to 2019”. But if 16,000 liters per day are required, the amount needed per year adds 5,840,000 liters. With this total, what was produced last year is only 21.64% of the demand.
The medium adds that there is a food leak, since most of the milk deliveries, agreed with the state monopoly, “take other destinations”, referring to sales in the informal market. The volumes that supply the warehouses of the rationed market, medical diets for chronic patients, hospitals, children’s circles and maternal or elderly homes do not reach to meet demand.
Of the 12 agricultural products of the municipality, none have more impact than the “low volumes of milk deliveries”
It also points out that, of the 12 agricultural products of the municipality, none have more impact than the “low volumes of milk deliveries.”
However, low production and shortage in Santa Clara has been registered at least for six years, although it is now impossible to hide it. René Bacallao Figueroa, coordinator of programs and objectives of the Government in Villa Clara, said that since 2019 milk deliveries have breaches in the municipality, “but before the contractual violations were not noticeable, because the country had the food powder.”
The radiography of these poor figures were presented by Bacallao Figueroa, which admitted that the possession, use and legality of the Earth, as well as the investigation of the livestock mass and compliance with the contracts “show fissures”, something that, remarks Vanguardyou must stop “promptly on each particular site.”
However, from the side of the Guajiros there were also accusations. One of them denounced that the dairy industry does not assume the hauling of the product “as required”, something that is aggravated by not Refrigerate the product. Regarding the administrative part, he stated that the Ministry of the Food Industry “accumulates defaults due to the overcomplication of production and that affects the monetary solvency of the producers and their relatives.”
The Ministry of Food Industry “accumulates defaults for the overcomplication of production
The shortage of milk in the municipality is the reflection of what is lived at the provincial level. From January in mid -November of last year, the industry in Villa Clara had barely reached 57% of the annual plan, a “difficult to emphasize the remaining of the year”, he also said Vanguard in last December. In addition, days before, the official press had reported that in the province they were barely collected 60,000 liters Diaries, 40% of what they collected in 2023, when the average was 150,000, which was also a low level. That year the province ceased to receive 21 million liters.
As usual in the ruling party, the authorities have lashed out at the producers, who accuse of looking for greater profits in the informal market, diminishing state production. The guajiros do not deny it because it is clear that by the left They can obtain greater benefits, even if that means taking a risk to receive fines or losing animals. The maximum that the State pays are 38 pesos for each liter of surplus milk of the basic plan, while in the informal market it reaches up to 120 pesos.
