Development Project Guarantees Production of Preserves

With the support of several national and international entities and organizations such as the Articulated Platform for Integral Territorial Development (Padit in Spanish), the Ministry of Agriculture, and the United Nations Development Program, the process includes installing, at least, seven modern technological equipment.

Yanier Pérez Ochoa, director of the Food Industry business unit in the territory, told the Cuban News Agency that a peeler, a pulper, a cooking kettle, a pasteurizer, and a vacuum sealer were installed, which will improve the quality and safety of the foodstuffs. There are also two large refrigerators and ventilation equipment for the production area, he added,

The coupling and readjustment of the Chinese production devices for their certification and optimal use by the workers of the premises was carried out with the expertise of the private company Control-Xi from Las Tunas.

The machines were designed for the processing of three types of hard fruits; however, in line with the diversity of inputs that include vegetables, some of them will also work with up to six varieties of raw material, said Control-Xi's electrical specialist, Raymundo Rodríguez Martínez.

With the vacuum machine, he said, the entire process of the unit will be revolutionized, as it will now be possible to pack jams by extracting air from the packets; this guarantees a much longer shelf life and will even allow them to be sold to other locations far from here.

The metamorphosis in La Voluntad is an unprecedented innovation for the local industry, with the marketing of its products at the entity's point of sale, at fairs and markets in "Jesús Menéndez" and other communities in the eastern province.