Tribute to Che and his initiative of more than six decades of voluntary work

The tasks linked to the food production programme and the preparation of agro-industrial machinery for the start of the 2024-2025 sugar harvest were included among the priorities this Saturday, 23 November, in the province of Ciego de Avila, in response to the call of the Cuban Workers’ Central.

On the national day of homage to the 65th anniversary of the first voluntary work carried out by Comandante Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, then minister of industry, today they carried out weeding in cucumber and aselga plantations, cleaning hectares of sweet potato and preparing beds for planting banana seeds, in the La Cuba Agricultural Enterprise, in the municipality of Baraguá.

Niurka Ferrer Castillo, secretary general of the CTC in the territory of Avila, informed that they will carry out similar mobilisations on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution and the 86th anniversary of the founding of the trade union organisation, to be commemorated on 28 January 2025, the year of the celebration of the final sessions of the 22nd workers’ congress.

Another notable contribution of the Saturday day was the continuation of the work that made possible, this month, the recovery of the production of plastic brooms, by the collective of the Juan Antonio Márquez Brushes and Plastic Articles Company, located in the provincial capital.

There, Vivian Espinosa Rodríguez, director of the brush-based business unit, explained that the reestablishment of the production cycle of the elite product for hygiene was made possible by the production chain with local entities and from other provinces, which made it possible to guarantee the monofilaments for the production of some 5,000 brooms a day, out of a total of 230,000 planned.

He argued that the most viable solution for this cooperative production, with a view to reviving the sale of this item to the people, lies in the completion of a machine in the testing phase to manufacture the monofilaments in the industry itself, which are currently in deficit due to financial limitations for the import of raw materials.

Cepil currently manufactures eight products, out of a total of 24 in its business portfolio, but maintains its equipment active with the application of alternatives such as the use of the circular economy modality in the optimal use of recycled materials, an initiative that brings the Vanguardia Nacional collective closer to fulfilling this year’s production plan, according to Oscar Morales Jiménez, general director of the entity.