The Turquino canning factory in the city of Holguín, the only facility of its kind in the east, extends fruit processing with encouraging results through production chains with 57 agricultural mini-industries which provide more than a thousand tons of food varieties per year.

Ramón Rodríguez, general director of this entity, highlighted the contributions that these units offer from the credit and service cooperatives (CCS) created in the different Holguin municipalities to obtain mainly derivatives of guava, mango and tomato.

The La Negra mini-industry, located in the town of Floro Pérez, in the territory of Gibara, constitutes one of the most stable in its contributions to Turquino, a center that also offers its contributions to other provinces through the production chain to specifically favor the preparation of creams and jams intended for medical diets.

Within these lines, the La Gloria staff, from Calixto García municipality, also stands out in the production of pickled vegetables, corn tamales, garlic and onion paste, while that of Arroyo Seco in Banes works mainly in the processing of papaya fruit, as well as tomato and mango, said Rodríguez.

The Turquino canning factory, with more than seven decades of foundation, stands out integrally for the production of derivatives of mango, guava and tomato, but at the same time it expands other lines of great acceptance such as mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, pickled vegetables and nuts destined for the commercial system of the province.