14-00000 ro. . Sc Ar ae . ‘ . me ‘ m~, VEwCA 2G Af EAN. economic intelligence report Bas C6 SOO RES. FREESE iger ow o Epo: * nari nic-anstess . 7 ~ ae abe | ess _ FROM THE: UR., ECONOMIC RESEARCH: BUREAU a ae ove SC Att. #1 -UFGA=26348"-.. 3 Bo VOL, IT. oo i . : - SPECTAL REPORT ON HORRICANE INEZ! EFFECTS ON CUBAN “AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, _ . i SUG 7 ; Evaluattog? . | — ‘S 2 The ERB estimtes ‘thit Cuba will lose a total of 307;000, netrio tons. of Ue. A suger in its 1967 harvest asa rosult of hurricsne « Ines... . Ro. e Greatest. damage: wais dond to ‘this: gait. quedada, the uncut eane aft over ‘feeu 7 = “the prévicug year, “When - Hes ‘etruck the ERB estimtes that thee were about a i four riillion tons of enfin quoitada which’ should produce about560,C00 tons of - a - Taw Suge? aasuning a. Bascharese. ‘yield ‘of 22.68. The ERB arrives at this. ‘loss St be e - ‘figure due the fact t fulky. 80n, 6r 3200,£00. tonse, of the. enfia auedada ves ooo. Ee ae .4n the southern and: 5 of : a he % ‘eof Oriente Provinea. whiten S ‘ ex nie ‘Cuba with ‘ts. ‘greatest: force. es Cy. . , oa ba any ‘tarricane usually'd estroys about 85% of the es th te ‘Thus the ERB estimtes that: Ine: jdee troyed. 1, 360,005" HORS. Se a Sugar lose of a7; 000 tones. using the 12.6 ‘esecharese 7 the cane that sprouts again. after having been cut, The ERB estimtes a total of 16,400,000. tons. of ‘ggteon in Las Villas and. Oriente provinces, . The ERB's -- studies ghow that Ines struck 33% of this éane, or 5,400,006 tons. Mistoricale oo ly,-& Céndarvative estimate of past damage to rateon cane that is. struck by bug K ricanes in Cuba would be 20%, Using this, Cuba's loss would be about 2,080,000 as ee tons Again, ueing the 12.6% saccharose yield figure, the raw ougar | loss from; ES The balance of the sugar: ‘lope will come from the dan tothe x: ratoon eanng i } } cane amounts to about 136,000 tons, ae Available Information? mo : — if - Pinar del Rio Province: In ‘Regional Artemisa, 42 ‘eaballerfas' (state- an owed) of sugar cane were damaged and 900,000 ‘are =~. : robas* (*) of sugar cane, were also damaged. ; 200 sugar bage of "Eduardo Garcfa Lavandero" sugar - b mill, were damyed, specially from the rains. B. 508 of suger cane areas, went down on account ef ~. the winds. In ‘Regional! Costa Norte, they reported serious ag damage in the sugar canes. | i (*) ‘arrota’ equals to 25 pounds. /p- sleam rt eoa-susay — USCOM ja-jae- ‘3 s 1 “da dh easecreneras denmmaes nannies UEDENGOS StS ERCEUSL ROTH SIP URI RIESE tr ANE ROP oot Pa rT manny SO Mae tame et
14-00000 é e : * ‘ e . ‘ ry . os aang, eo re ee oe Re . . oe a ors i ze es on i lag Villes Province?  _ ” Gigar cane in Vaile. de. Trinidad, crop damaged. S's Soe Re . — Regional fancti-Spfritus: Serious damages to the | Te ‘ a ‘Tunas. de Zaza? gap in ‘@ sugar warehouse, but it. tS . re BR Végano: 90% of the sugar cane was © Garaged (200 : FT eta feaballerfas’ (y ‘erushed)s _- . eral whe ‘ iy [ eee ; SR Cam guey- Province! Te Barapid; Venezuela, San bina, MaJaizus, IRiegta~ ” i. 5 Loe ne "7. nad Chego de Avila, “the sugar ¢ carte suffered dane ee Se age. from the winds. ee : + Opfente: Provinces.” ca ' Sugar cane suffered serious Samages: da ‘the ‘viedine ity of Santiago. .. - Near Yara, sugat cane fietae were observed ‘With. e a oO Ea Boquerén_ 900 sugar baiga were ; destroyed. a ot .* In Caiganera, Boquerény Guantdnamo, the. suger plag * tations oufferdd serious. datages. : i! ' In egeienal ‘Guantdnano, 7 Gane shelters vere des~ ow! ‘ a and 2 were affected, 7 oo, ‘The roofs vere bout sit ton ‘sugar. ‘warehouses a and 1 a5: ‘in. uastésaso and ; the 2,500 bags of raw sugar “stored therein became ‘wet. - aan Be 1 e 32 & sath * 4 ees PSST Strong ‘winds and hoavy rains affect the quality of this plant, ¢ as Jong | they damage the tobacco leaves. Besides this, the leaves get stained and some © rot as a result of being in contect with the wet soil, thus affecting the qual-- ity in one case, and becoming a total loss in the other, If the area is flo~ oded, most tobacco leaves will rot. - . ree Pinar del Rio Province: ‘'Julidn Alemany’ farm in Consolacién del Sor ote . and in “Hinos, Sale" in San Juan y Mart{nes, the .— . a / . OB of the tobacco seeds. were damaged, to, j f+ * Si wii Ravana Province? Rone, oe : . (#) A ‘ecaballerfa' is a Cuban surface measure equal to! 33.162 acres. vr 3
14-00000 r OE OTIS ERT tp TYREE Btbeteen aay Schoo UTTER e . s, \ . ome, : : i ; a . ‘Matantas Frovizicet ‘None oe , Ses, Laps Las Miiies Province: Tobacco: pieduction’ ag. destroyed.” wee ka \ _Almest total 1086 of ‘the a ne §,,000 Houses "ciraF tabaco” ‘vere- dedkroyed! ‘ia the following iotalities: Cabatgudtly. Zaza dei. Ma ‘ . . - -@4e, Placetas, Candijuanf,’ and’ ‘Sancti«Spfritis. mo , . 2) “93-‘houses full of. tobdeco (éasae de tabaco), were , - |” ‘destroyed, ‘and 350 were partially destroyed. 7 houses: of “curar tabaco" were partially destroy- ed in El Megano and 9 were completely destroyed, another 31 houses suffered minor damages. Conaguey Provinces (- None, — Lo woe eee Oriente Province! a Hone. Sad The hurricanes during “Septenber ‘and Octeber cause condiderable ‘dastige. to | ‘the ‘Goffes crop, because it is precisely during these two months, when the cof. fee is harvested. -Besides ‘the damge to the coffes plants, the. hurrieshe scat~ a tats ‘the coffee beans: widely rot ‘quickly an contact. with | the wet soil. . Pinar del Rfo Frovincet Nona, ’ ‘Havana Province? — Rone. re a — ae ry Las Villas. Province! - Coffee ‘production was destroyed. sn Almost total loss of coffee crop. | Matanzas Province? — _ Rone. 7 : . 28 ne 7 oe, oe ‘ Canaguey Province: Nona, = 7 Oriente Province? _ The ANAP (National Association of Small Farmers} called all the members of this association to pick up all the coffee crop that was seriously damaged. Ghtil October ist., in. Buey Arriba und Guisa, 472,000 full-cans of coffee were collected, that ae represents a 274 of the actual crop, that was cale - culated in 1,740,000 full-cans, They are sending workers of Jiguanf, Santa Rita and Cauto Crise to to Buey Arriba coffee plantantion. In *Reginnel' Baracoa. the hurricane Ines ripped - the coffee crop, In 'Regional! Guantanamo 13,000 full-cans suffered serious damages. In 'Regional' Palma-San Luis . 122,000 full-cans vent to the ground. . ; me