Emergency Move to Save
Cuban Coffee Harvest
YATERAS - An emergency
mobilization engages in
saving 100 thousand bags
of coffee affected by
hurricane Ike in this
eastern Cuban locality
of Guantanamo province.
Daily Juventud Rebelde
on Sunday says that
volunteers of different
professions are set on
harvesting the greatest
amount possible of
coffee beans in the
areas hit by hurricane
winds, second greatest
producer of coffee in
Cuba.
According to preliminary
assessments, Guantanamo
lost over 328 thousand
bags of coffee apart
from lesser damage to
the roofing of coffee
farm facilities.
Emilio Rivera, oficial
of the Provincial Coffee
Direction, assured that
great part of the fallen
beans can be recovered,
if they are picked and
processed before they
rot.
The enterprise thus
works to improve access
roads to the coffee
plantations in order to
take out the collected
fruit as quickly as
possible. |
