Havana, Aug 5 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is conducting new research to promote the use of sugar cane and its sub products as food for animals, including process of integration with other agribusiness production, according to industry experts.
Amarilys Guevara and other specialists of the Institute Derivatives Research of Sugar Cane (ICIDCA), proposed in a study published today here the use of wastes and by-products through supply chains to articulate all the links around the sugar company and its sub products.

According to the authors, the goal is to achieve food sufficiency for livestock, raw materials for the sugar industry and other complementary domestic production such as maize, sorghum, cassava.

The experts took as a basis for the development of its research business unit basis Antonio Sanchez, Cienfuegos province about 350 kilometers southeast of the capital, which has a wit and several derivatives plants from the use of honey, bagasse, the bagasse, the rum distillery and waste, the company manufactures high volumes of honey and torula yeast protein, from a range of nutrients for swine and cattle feed, they said.

Their study, entitled The Use of Products and Derivatives of Sugar Cane, in an integrated food production with environmental solutions, helps the country to achieve food sufficiency for livestock system.

Also, they develop organic production and conservation soil to mitigate environmental problems.

Recently, ICIDCA director, Luiz Galvez, meant that today it is recognized that this agribusiness in the world is not viable only with the production of sugar, but also electricity, alcohols, sorbitol, boards, soakers of such cultivation, among others.

Galvez announced the completion in October of the 13th International Congress on Sugar and derivatives, in which the participation of more than a hundred Cuban and foreign specialists are expected, and the current executive director of the International Sugar Organisation, the Guatemalan José Alberto Orive.

In the recently concluded harvest, the sugar group Azcuba produced 175, 530 tons of animal feed, which represented an increase of 78 000 tons from the previous, the company said on its balance sheet of the campaign.