2024-02-15 11:22:24
With a deficit of 784 tons compared to 2022 and barely 55% productivity achieved, the performance of the Camagüey Canned and Vegetable company in 2023 was described as “critical” by the industry’s own managers. A devastating article published this Wednesday in the official newspaper Forwardpoints to a clear culprit: the producers hired by the company, who did not comply with deliveries last year.
The lack of “quality” in the hiring process, the “lack of discipline” and the poor “training” of the staff have left the company’s production on the rocks. Of the reception of tomato, fruit bomb, ripe mango, pepper, onion, cabbage, cucumber, corn and guava, only the latter reached the plan with 102% of the delivery, the media reported.
With a panorama of non-compliance on the part of the farmers, the newspaper assures, only 29% of the raw material was received – initially calculated at 4,453 tons –, with a particular deficit of ripe tomatoes, “of which barely reached the industry on 0 .03%”, which is equivalent to 2,447 tons less than agreed.
Other indicators, such as the entry of 75% of mango and 59% of peppers, did not suffer falls as abysmal as that of the fruit
Other indicators, such as the entry of 75% of mango and 59% of peppers, did not suffer falls as abysmal as that of the fruit, but they did not reach the industry’s expectations either. “In a simple summary, seven of the eleven compromised articles contributed absolutely nothing to the two factories of this institution: El Mambí, and the other one in the town of Camalote,” he says. Forward.
Also drastic was the collapse of production aimed at tourism, which was left with 280 tons of products below what was agreed. With these “extremely low” numbers, the company resorted to modifying the prices of its products, although the authorities did not clarify whether it was an increase or a decrease.
Inexplicably, the media claims that the sale to the population, without precise numbers and despite the obvious failure of production, had “positive results.”
With all the variables against it, this year the company set out to reach 1,535 tons of already manufactured products, a greater contribution than that obtained in 2023, and, to this end, explained director Dalia Fuentes Navarro, work is already underway to control the production process. poor hiring and which has been the cause, according to the leader, of the poor performance of the factory in recent months.
Fuentes Navarro even foresees that the tomato campaign in 2024 will be larger than estimated, since special care has been taken to hire producers who honor the agreement and, he asserts, the lines for making pizza sauces, seasonings, juices and ketchup, could be benefited.
“It is clear that in the current period they must face a reorganization of their workforce, improve payment systems, especially in bottle washing, and increase the training of their staff, especially related to candy masters,” he adds. Forwardwith less optimism than the board.
Blaming the “informality” of producers for the collapses in state industries has become a common statement in the official press.
Blaming the “informality” of producers for the collapses in state industries has become a common statement in the official press that, although it recognizes the poor conditions of contracts with the State, insists that there is no justification for non-compliance.
Something similar happened this January in Sancti Spíritus, when the local newspaper, Escambrayregretted that milk producers decided to sell it for up to 150 pesos in the informal market before delivering it to the State – usually a poor payer – for a few pesos.
The guajiros have not remained on the sidelines either. This Monday, a producer from Sancti Spiritus complained, through a video shared on social networks, about how unprofitable it is to negotiate with the regime. With milk at 20 pesos – the official payment – “I have to sell 17 liters to make a dollar,” he lamented, while ensuring that in no country in the world is milk paid at such a “humiliating” price.
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