The lack of flourprovoked delays of up to two days in the delivery of breadfor the population of Holguín in the midst of the supply crisis that the country is experiencing.
According to a group ofFacebook of the residents in the El Purial Popular Council, in the Holguín municipality, the consumers of the La Entrada winery spent two days without receiving the standardized bread and without any information about the causes of the delay in delivery.
In the comments to the post it was clarified that the cause of the lack of bread was due to the fact that the flour arrived late at the bakeries and the food was not produced in time for distribution.
Rolando Guerra Machín, from the Directorate of Labor and Social Security of the Holguín municipality, revealed to the affected people that the bread would be replaced when it arrived at the warehouse.
Some people confirmed that in their localities they also got double it after going two days without consuming it.
Last year, the director of the Food Production and Distribution Company (NUMA) in Holguín explained that the allocation offlour to the province is “quite deficient”, which leads to ensuring standardized 80-gram bread to the population and prioritized organizations, as permitted by the availability of raw materials.
The official argued that the flour arrives daily in the territory because it is imported from mills in Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos and, then, it must be transported to the production centers, to guarantee continuous production.
Even though they have entered the country wheat donationsto produce flour, its lack continues to affect the production of this basic food for children's breakfast and snack.
The crisis has led to the adoption of variants that, instead of flour, can help produce bread. The cassava, the great protagonist of bakeries and pastry shops in recent times, has gone from becoming an extender to occupying the entire place of wheat flour in preparations.
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