The collective prepares to master the new equipment.

In the heat of the activities commemorating the 71st anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, La Voluntad mini-industry is getting stronger.

"Jesús Menéndez," Las Tunas - In the unit, located in El Canal and belonging to the Food Industry of the northern municipality, they are immersed in the assembly of a new and modern technology that will increase the quality and safety of the food.

The Articulated Platform for the Integral Development of Territories (PADIT) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) provided the financing for the purchase of the equipment, complemented by a loan granted by the municipality as part of the local development strategy.

This was explained by Yaniel Pérez Ochoa, director of the basic business unit (UEB in Spanish), attached to the Provincial Food Industry Company, which operates in this municipality, winner of the headquarters of the central event of the province for the National Rebellion Day, on July 26, which will be greeted with the tests and start-up.

Pérez Ochoa explains that in these days before the commemoration they are working on the assembly of the modern equipment and, at the same time and with the methodological advice of the Provincial Company, they are training and preparing the collective in the handling and operation of the machinery.

It is a set of machines that includes scrubbers, sealers, electric thermometers, and packers -among others- that humanize the work and improve the quality, safety, and presentation of the food, whose offerings are expected to increase.

He adds that to start production they have the necessary inputs, obtained as part of the financial negotiation and that they have guarantees of sustainability in the future, both in terms of raw materials and other resources from income from sales.

He assures that there are guarantees of raw materials (fruit and vegetables) based on the contracting of supplies with suppliers, which has allowed them to have a stable production flow in the factory so far and to guarantee the fulfillment of sales plans to the population and organizations, mainly Public Health and Education, an important part of their clients.

A sample of the machines.

Pérez Ochoa confirms that the new technology will humanize the work, which is why the seven workers are very happy. He points out the investment as challenging, which will bring better dividends, "because it can produce around one ton of preserves, fruit or vegetables, in eight hours, and monthly the figure should exceed 20, which is seven times more than what we have been obtaining until now."

"We are also going to obtain a higher income that will benefit the salaries of the workers and the economic health of the UEB because this project allows them to be trained by what we are capable of producing and marketing," the young manager ratifies.