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| 06/27/2008 09:06 PM |
| Cuba incumple plan de azúcar pero aumenta un 24% la producción |
| CUBA-AZUCARCuba incumple plan de azúcar pero aumenta un 24% la producciónHora: 16:57 Fuente : EFELa Habana, 27 jun (EFECOM).- Cuba concluyó la zafra 2007-2008 sin cumplir su objetivo de producción por tercer año consecutivo, ... |
| 06/21/2008 07:14 PM |
| La Isla sólo pudo producir 1,2 millones de toneladas de azúcar en 2007 |
| EconomíaLa Isla sólo pudo producir 1,2 millones de toneladas de azúcar en 2007Las autoridades afirman que la actual zafra superará en un 18% a la anterior.Agencias | 21/06/2008AFP/ La Habana. Cuba alcanzó a producir 1.205.400 toneladas ... |
| 05/27/2008 01:05 PM |
| Cuba says will meet domestic sugar demand in 2008 |
| Cuba says will meet domestic sugar demand in 2008ReutersMonday May 26 2008By Marc FrankHAVANA, May 26 (Reuters) - Cuba will meet domestic demand for refinedand raw sugar this year, the official media said over the weekend, ... |
| 05/07/2008 11:50 AM |
| Cuba eyes soy beans for vacant sugar lands |
| Cuba eyes soy beans for vacant sugar landsTue May 6, 2008 6:31pm ISTHAVANA, May 6 (Reuters) - Cuba has begun soy bean production on 5000 hectares of land formally dedicated to sugar cane, official radio reported on Tuesday, ... |
| 04/10/2008 03:19 PM |
| Rains Dampen Cuba's Sugar Production |
| Rains Dampen Cuba's Sugar ProductionRay Sanchez | Direct from Havana7:28 AM EDT, April 10, 2008Havana, CubaCubans can expect less sugar with that mojito or cup of strong Cuban coffee.The island's sugar minister, Ulises Rosales del Toro, ... |
| 11/06/2007 10:11 PM |
| Tropical storm Noel takes toll on Cuban sugar |
| Tropical storm Noel takes toll on Cuban sugarFri Nov 2, 2007 12:03pm EDTBy Marc FrankHAVANA (Reuters) - Tropical storm Noel left thousands of hectares of sugar cane under water in eastern and central Cuba and seriously damaged ... |
| 10/20/2007 05:19 PM |
| Agriculture: Sugar imports up slightly in 1st 7 months |
| Agriculture: Sugar imports up slightly in 1st 7 months(Xinhua)Updated: 2007-10-20 16:49China imported 691000 tons of sugar in the first seven months of this year, a growth of 5.3 percent year-on-year, according to General Administration ... |
| 05/29/2007 04:01 PM |
| More cracks in the sugar-cane curtain |
| More cracks in the sugar-cane curtainIn our opinion05-29-2007Last week another Alabama trade mission went to Cuba.We all know that in recent years American relations with that island nation have been more a matter of domestic policy ... |
| 02/28/2007 02:57 PM |
| Cuba scrambles as sugar harvest drags amid rain, heat |
| Cuba scrambles as sugar harvest drags amid rain, heat Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:07PM EST By Marc Frank HAVANA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Cuba has begun mobilizing cane cutters and will extend the sugar harvest from April into May as rain, ... |
| 11/24/2006 07:46 PM |
| Sugar cane extract doesn't lower cholesterol |
| Proponents have suggested that perhaps only Cuban sugar cane extracts will work, but Jones and Kassis used the same type employed by the Cuban lab, as have other researchers recently, without seeing results. ... |
| 09/05/2006 07:07 PM |
| Cuba returns to sugar high |
| Cuba returns to sugar high As global demand rises, Havana vows production rebound By Gary Marx Tribune foreign correspondentSeptember 5, 2006JESUS MENENDEZ, Cuba -- Several years after downsizing what was once Cuba's most important ... |
| 08/01/2006 03:12 PM |
| Sugar Prices in China Fall After Government Auction |
| ... fell for a third day to an all-time low after a state auction attracted less interest from local buyers, raising concerns of an oversupply.The government failed to sell 92000 metric tons of refined sugar at an auction yesterday. A. |
| 06/29/2006 11:10 AM |
| Cuba can't meet sugar harvest goal |
| 29, 2006AGRICULTURE Cuba can't meet sugar harvest goal Responding to high international sugar prices, Cuba tried to increase its sugar production this year, but failed. BY FRANCES ROBLES frobles@MiamiHerald.comCuba's struggling sugar ... |
| 05/29/2006 05:08 PM |
| Cuba to host International Congress on Sugar |
| The 14th International Congress on Sugar and its By-products, "Diversificacion 2006," will be held in Havana June 19-22, with debates on the current situation in the sector.The event will include a workshop on the uses of sugar cane´s ... |
| 05/18/2006 03:30 PM |
| Sugar cane extract same as placebo: study |
| ... reduce cholesterol, did no better than a placebo in a trial that contradicts some earlier studies, researchers said on Tuesday.Made from the waxy coating on sugar cane and sometimes from beeswax, wheat germ and rice bran, policosanol. |
| 05/18/2006 03:27 PM |
| German study doubts sugar cane extract as cholesterol treatment |
| German study doubts sugar cane extract as cholesterol treatmentA German study has found that the dietary supplement policosanol, which is made from sugar cane, works no better than dummy pills in reducing bad cholesterol. ... |
| 05/12/2006 07:26 PM |
| Sugar Mill Poses Explosive Risk |
| ENVIRONMENT-CUBA: Sugar Mill Poses Explosive Risk Patricia GroggHAVANA, (IPS) - One of the main industrial sugar refining complexes in the province of Matanzas, in the west of Cuba, has been blamed for an underground build-up of methane ... |
| 04/15/2006 11:09 PM |
| Cuba seeks direct foreign investment in sugar mill |
| Theoretically, the state-run sugar industry has been open to direct investment for a decade, but in practice there has been no interest up to now on the government's part except in a few derivatives and mechanical ventures, the sources ... |
| 04/10/2006 04:21 PM |
| ETHANOL ENERGY AND CUBAN CRUNCH GIVE PRICE A BUZZ |
| The world sugar price is booming and indications are that it will stay high for the foreseeable future. The dynamics that affect both supply and demand, and a number of extraneous factors like the oil price, ... |
| 03/27/2006 11:36 PM |
| Cubans back to fields to end sugar rum crisis |
| Cubans back to fields to end sugar, rum crisis March 27, 2006 By Franz Smets. Havana, March 27 (DPA) Exactly a year ago President Fidel Castro declared that Cuba's 300-year history as a sugar-growing island was at ... |
| 03/24/2006 05:25 PM |
| Sugar mill worker fired because he is a dissident |
| from his job at the Cuba Libre sugar operation because of his political views. Sigler Amaya, 53, said mill manager Orlando Martínez Acosta on March 14 invoked law 1 of 2001 under which he was fired because he met in his ... |
| 11/29/2005 08:08 PM |
| Havana nights without sugar |
| In a country with sugar as its main cash crop, the plant consolidations in 2002 that closed nearly half of sugar plants in Cuba shocked many. Similar closings are happening on a smaller scale in Cuba once again. ... |