About 30 quintals of cabbage and one quintal of pumpkin rotted in an Acopio warehouse in the municipality of Caimito, in the province ofSagebrush, in the middle of thefood crisis and theinflation uncontrolled crisis faced in the country, according to local authorities.
Local inspectors detected that 30 quintals of cabbage and one quintal of pumpkin rotted at the Acopio Marketing Company in Caimito, for which the director of the entity was fined 30,000 pesos for "not creating the corresponding mechanisms for the commercialization of these products," he said. This Tuesday a note from the provincial government of Artemisa, published inFacebook.
“At the time of the inspection, it was found that there were 30 quintals of cabbage and 1 quintal of pumpkin in a state of putrefaction in the warehouse. These foods were stinky, and were not marketed to the population despite being received on May 26, 2023,” the information adds.
The note emphasizes that "the Provincial Government of Artemisa rejects such events in Caimita territory, without any justification given the need to market more quality food to the Cuban family" and that similar events and price violations can be reported to the number 47366471.
It is not the first time that they have transcended how food rots in warehouses or in the fields in the midst of one of the worst crises that the country has ever experienced.
Just two days ago, it emerged that in the province of GuantánamoTons of mango rot due to inefficiencies in the production model.
“These are images of four farmers from different municipalities of Guantánamo and whose tons of mango are lost due to lack of management, resources, hiring, transportation and marketing,” noted the official profile ofFacebook Miguel News.
The publication was accompanied by images of harvested mangoes rotting in the field. According to the aforementioned profile, the unfortunate images corresponded to the mango harvests of farmers in the towns of San Antonio del Sur and Imías.
"There are tons of spoiled mangoes that are so needed right now in these times that we live in, do you think that this is how it is possible for the economy to recover? These are just two farmers, there are several in this same situation and that without entering the field "That's where the real rot is," denounced a Cuban who wrote to the official profile.
Also last March,A Cuban farmer reported that his entire tomato crop rotted due to bureaucratic obstacles and blamed the Cuban leaders who “are not interested in the people.”
In several Facebook posts, farmer Raúl Morales, from the Manuel Fajardo Credit and Services Cooperative (CSS), in the Encrucijada municipality, province of Villa Clara, recounted this unfortunate situation and shared images of how his tomato crop was lost.
"In my Cooperative there are 11 sales points, it is not logical that my tomato production is rotting on the farm, even though as a farmer I have created the conditions to bring it to the point, and no one accepts my tomato, having to return with the boxes,” Morales complained, ina post spread on his social network.
In February it was also revealed that tons of oregano for the Cuban pharmaceutical industryThey were lost in the fields of the Granma province due to lack of collection containers for the vegetable mass.
“I have more than 10 tons of oregano in my hands going bad. This is a short cycle crop that is 60 days after sowing and every 45 days you must make a cut. If it begins to ripen, it loses its leaves, putting the harvest and obtaining medicinal products at risk,” producer Ricardo Serrano Masquida told the local official media.The Demajagua.
In 2021, for its part,A Cuban farmer lost a cabbage cropbecause the state company Acopio, in charge of receiving the product, said it did not have the workforce to process it.
Héctor González, a worker at the Pedro y Bienvenido Cooperative, in the Minas municipality, in Pinar del Río, lost 1,300 cabbages due to a bureaucratic failure. The Acopio company, belonging to the popular council of Sumidero, rejected the merchandise and did not take responsibility for the loss.
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