MILAN – According to media reports, Hurricane Sandy decimated the coffee of Cuba crop when it ripped through the eastern part of the country late last week.
The storm left between 20 per cent and 30 per cent of the crop on the ground. And inflicted a major setback to renovation of old plantations.
It damaged processing centres and roads and felled thousands of trees upon plantations in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Where 92 per cent of the crop is grown.
The official Granma newspaper reported on Monday that Guantanamo province, the country’s second producer after Santiago de Cuba; “lost 174,475 cans of beans” and “47 processing centres were damaged” (525 cans equal to a tonne).
Losses were also reported in the eastern provinces of Granma and Holguin, the country’s third and fourth producers.
