Madrid/Apiculture is not as bad as most industries in Cuba, but not as well as it would be desirable. With forecasts that seem unattainable as of today, the Pinareña company of the sector has approved a “new financing scheme” whose novelty is in the authorization granted to the producers so that they can buy supplies from MSMEs and Account Propers.
To do this, the state company will pay honey to beekeepers with a “currency support” that will allow them to acquire resources in the private sector, Inform The provincial newspaper Guerrilla. “The new scheme is already being implemented and will definitely have a positive impact, not only for the economy of the producers, but for the company’s indicators,” said Ismelis Barbaro Prieto Acanda, director of the Apicultural EU.
The official said that last year the company produced almost 200 tons while by 2025 a 325 goal has been set. The amount seems impossible on these dates, since only 138 tons go that, although – as it stands out Guerrilla– There are ten more than those that had been developed a year ago, they suppose very little progress at a goal of 125 more tons.
The official said that last year the company produced almost 200 tons while by 2025 a 325 goal has been set
“It has been a very complex year, especially due to the situation that exists with the energy for the production of hive elements, as is the case of the stamped wax sheets, which are the fundamental resources for the production of honey and the attention to the hives,” explains the official.
Despite this, they do not renounce, he stressed, to the marked goal, since the number of producers has increased, mostly in difficult access areas, where you can take advantage of the greatest flowering. In total, 60 beekeepers with 12,000 hives are part of the company, and make not only honey, but also wax, propolis, jelly and pollen, in addition to medicinal products from an agreement with the medication factory.
In addition, Prieto announced that, while it is facilitated that producers buy the private sector, the State works to replenish their store “from import imports that we already do, and that it will have cheaper prices for beekeepers”.
The official states that a seminar has already been taught to the producers to know the system, but has not explained to the press what the so -called support consists of, and if this consists of a payment in foreign exchange to their cards, a loan or any other formula. What seems clear is that it is not a deposit or cash payment, the most appreciated by the peasants, although more and more are those who doubt those promised amounts that rarely materialize.
According to sources of 14ymedio In the beekeeping sector, the State charges about 4,000 dollars or more per ton of honey exported and delivers 20% to beekeepers: between 35,000 and 40,000 pesos, in addition to 600 mlc. It is estimated that in 2024 honey exports exceeded 8,000 tons and – with the calculations of the product price in the international market – the State revenues reached 45 million dollars.
With these accounts, the producers calculate that the State owes them around 20 million dollars and regret that there is a lack of foreign exchange not to pay them
With these accounts, the producers calculate that the State owes them around 20 million dollars and regret that lack of foreign exchange to not pay them, As this newspaper published In a report in July.
“Last year was the last one that fell in that trap, this year I will remove myself from honey, at least in the papers, I will maintain some hives to sell directly to private clients and nothing more,” he told 14ymedio A spirit producer, after regretting that they are forced to resort to the shortage of state market to buy because, without the currencies that owe them, it is impossible to resort to the private ones.
In the last appointment of the National Assembly of Popular Powerthe Minister of Economy and Planning, Joaquín Alonso indicated that beekeeping, that I have been leaving good dividends due to the appreciated of the product at the international level, was going back to saying that the items that were well were not being “enough to compensate for the decrease in the volumes of the nickel and other products of mining, honey, coal, crop and sea shrimp and biopharmaceutical products.”
