Harvest

Songo-La Maya: From the Sugarcane Fields to Silence

The only sugar mill in Guantánamo will start by grinding sugar cane to produce alcohol and will then attempt to make sugar

Socialist economy, nationalizations, and structural crisis in Cuba

"A giant on the ground": Cubans mourn the destruction of a sugar mill in Holguín

The harvest fails at the Quintín Bandera sugar mill in Villa Clara: from promising sugar and energy to surviving with animal traction and solar panels

The collapse of the sugar harvest impacts alcohol production for the health system in Cuba

Las Tunas sets a goal of 38,000 tons of sugar for the upcoming harvest following the failure of the previous one

Energy crisis forces postponement of the sugar harvest in Villa Clara and jeopardizes basic basket sugar

Holguín produced less than ten percent of its sugar target in the recent harvest

Artemisa is planting less than half of the planned sugarcane, and sugar prices continue to rise

Díaz-Canel chastises Cuban agricultural producers: “It’s not a lack of resources, it’s a lack of will.”

The regime appeals to "voluntary labor" following the worst sugar harvest in over a century

Sugar production in Cuba falls to its lowest level in over 100 years

Without power, without pay, and without harvest! Total crisis at a sugar mill in Ciego de Ávila

Central Antonio Guiteras in Las Tunas produced only 16% of the sugar plan

Between illusion and inefficiency, Villa Clara has failed to meet its sugar production since 2019

Granma concludes a bitter harvest with only 27% of the expected sugar

Camagüey produced only 4,000 tons of sugar in the recent harvest

With less than 3,000 tons, the harvest in Guantánamo barely exceeds 38% of the planned target

Granma's sugar harvest in crisis: only 26% of the plan achieved and millions in losses

Cuba records the lowest sugar production since the 19th century

Cuban sugar harvest of 2025 confirms structural collapse of a once-strategic sector

Crisis in the sugar harvest in Santiago de Cuba: the Dos Ríos sugar mill barely reaches 13 percent of its target

Official journalist strikes back at Cuban leader: "Name five benefits of the Order Task."

Severe fire in sugarcane fields of Guantánamo caused by "social indiscipline."

Sugar crisis in Cuba: Only six mills are operational, processing 25 percent of the sugarcane

The government labels it "shameful" that Cuba has to import sugar

Cuban guarapero in the Canaries: "I was born in the sugarcane fields."

The sugar sector resorts to prisoners to handle the harvest in Cuba

Two tons of sugar stolen from a mill in Artemisa

There is no sugar in Cienfuegos despite having exceeded the production plan

The government warns of difficulties in the distribution of regulated sugar due to deficiencies in the harvest

In the midst of the crisis in the sugar industry, the government is holding a manual cane-cutting competition in Granma

Cuban students gift a "central" to Díaz-Canel

Even the scraping is rising in price in Cuba

Russia and Belarus will support the sugar harvest in Cuba with machinery and credits

The author of the cane fields burning in Sancti Spíritus has been sentenced to 15 years in prison

They are using oxen teams to plant sugarcane in Santiago de Cuba

Authorities find it difficult to meet the sugar harvest plan in Ciego de Ávila

A worker dies at a sugar mill in Holguín

They boast in Cuba of producing more than 550,000 boxes of rum in the current sugar harvest

Cienfuegos boasts of being the first Cuban province to complete the sugar harvest

Limay Blanco on rice and sugar prices: "Ease up."

A lack of investments and maintenance keeps Cuba in the dark

The current Cuban sugar harvest is facing a deficit of 95,000 tons for domestic consumption

National Electric System Restored after "San Telmo Fire" Left Half of Cuba Without Power

The Domestic Trade adopts measures in response to the sugar crisis in Cuba

Ash falls over the city of Holguín after a sugarcane field fire in Cacocum

Cuba is not producing the expected amount of sugar

Fuel shortages and machinery issues delay sugarcane planting in Cuba

Dissatisfaction among workers due to the shutdown of the Uruguay sugar mill in Sancti Spíritus

Cuba is preparing for a "small" sugar harvest amid the collapse of the sugar industry

Students mobilize for sugarcane planting in Ciego de Ávila

The marabou harvest in Cuba has been affected due to a lack of liquidity

Cubans are taking aim at CIMEX for promoting guarapo to help alleviate the heat this summer

Cuba seeks foreign investment to save its deteriorating sugar industry

Tardocastrism Between the Piñata and the Squid

Díaz-Canel proposes generating electricity from the biomass of sugar mills

Delays in sugarcane planting forecast a poor harvest in Ciego de Ávila

Cuba will not fulfill its sugar export commitments following the worst harvest in decades