Food Plant Reopens in Santiago de Cuba

Cuba is trying to boost its food processing industries. Photo: Elio Delgado

HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 12 – Nine years after having stopped operations, the pasta and candy plant in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba reinitiated its productions as part of a state program to reactivate food processing industries, reported IPS.

The factory produces candies, bonbons, cookies, mixture for pastas, pizzas and instant beverages, and chocolate-covered sponge fingers.

Cuba is attempting to recover its food production and industries to lessen its dependency on imports that it can not afford.

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