He State Sugar Council (CEA) Carry out a Recovery plan of the legendary Porvenir ingenuityof San Pedro de Macoríswhich had been ruined by the past governments and prepared to surrender to private hands, according to the director of that institution, Rafael Burgos.
This factory of sugar and molasses leaves the financial hole in which he was, eliminating a debt of 800 million pesos to which she was convicted in a Spanish court After losing a demand from the company that would buy it, and another of 300 million suppliers.
“These are conflicts that come from international demands against the institution for issues that occurred in the contracts of the privatization… there is still that interest (of privatization) by groups who want to make the owner of the ingenuity. This ingenuity today costs 2.5 billion dollars, ”says Burgos.
The official, also in charge of national goods (BN), opened the doors of the Industrial Park To show the production reactivationrepair of machinery, maintenance and ignition of the three boilers, and the modernization of aspects such as the cut of the cane.
With two rented harvesters During the last harvest, they managed to reduce the need for Haitian labor, from 500 to 50. These 50 remain important to access the areas where the machines cannot reach.
Even so, the Deportations The authorities have done during the last months reduced the amount of immigrants available and caused a Merm in the harvest.
“We couldn’t cut around 50 thousand tonsbecause they took all the Haitian workers who were in the fields. We needed that part to increase the productive capacity, because they collected more than 400 that were in the fields cutting cane, ”Burgos said.
The entity acquired four new harvesters For a value of 270 thousand dollars Each, an amount lower than the market price, which is around 600 thousand, according to Burgos. Of these, they have already received two.
The works in the industrial complex They have cost 450 million pesos and include the installation of an automated control room of the factory, the construction of the Research Institute and the acquisition of tractors, fumigation drones and motor vehicles.
40 thousand tons
The Ingenio Administrator, Juan Isidro Medina, projects a production of 15 thousand tons of sugar For next year, enough to balance the local market For a month, according to their calculations. However, the plan is to reach 40 thousand tons per year.
Reaching this goal would be taken between 7 to 10 years and would imply reinvesting between 30 % and 40 % of their profits in each operation cycle. In 2025, more than six thousand tons have produced sugar and 1.3 million gallons of molasses, a result affected by the Merm in labor.
Engineer Luis Catano, director of sugar operations, indicated that 15 thousand tons They can generate one billion pesos for the Dominican state.
This product is introduced into the national market to press downward prices at key moments, according to the official story.
400 pesos for a farm
In a broad land that the director of the CEA ensures it was rented for 400 pesos per month and was recovered by the institution, a Research Institute that is dedicated to Experimentation with cane plants of sugar In search of greater productivity and resistance.
In other similar situations there were at least 30 thousand public property tasks that had been given to private hands and that the current management of CEA claims to have rescued.
“The production we have recovered is already 40 thousand tons of sugar. Obviously, we have to produce the cane to get to that, because in previous governments this ingenuity was mutilated and having 110 thousand tasks under crop, they left it with just 47 thousand, ”said Engineer Medina.
The three boilers have operated and hope to produce at least 6 megawatts of energy, which will serve to provide the 2.5 megawatts consumed by ingenuity and transmit the rest to the national electrical system.
“We are working with the Superintendence of Electricity to contribute energy to the national electrical system, and they will make a payment for it,” Burgos said.
