Cuban province´s sugar facilities undergo heavy repairs

The recovery of 10 facilities devoted to the repair and maintenance of sugarcane agricultural machinery is one of the actions carried out in Villa Clara province in the preparatory schedule of the 2015-2016 sugar harvest.

Diego Luis Valdes, an official of the Sugar Company of the province, told ACN that the task's
main objective is to ensure good working conditions to the technicians, mechanics and operators of combine, tractors and other means of transport.

Serious impacts on roofs, damages on water systems, lack of ventilation in work zones and
inadequate conditions in areas where winches and other means are operated are the greatest damage reported in the dozen facilities that are being renovated in the province, he declared.

Aramis Castillo, head of the technical group of Perucho Figueredo sugar mill, in Encrucijada,
said the inclusion of mechanics in the cutting squads decreases the waiting time for the repair.

He added that the strategy established in the country to recover sugar production includes
the retraining of workers in the workshops, for them to know the qualities of modern working means that are incorporated into the work of sugarcane cutting.