Cuba's sugar harvest remained well ...

Cuba's sugar harvest remained well behind schedule with the official media reporting that Villa Clara was the first province to furnish 200,000 tons of raw sugar, six weeks later than the first province last year, reports Reuter (April 7 2003):

During the 2001/02 harvest Eastern Las Tunas reached 200000 tons of sugar upon Feb. 22. Central Villa Clara produc around 370000 tons of sugar during the 2001/02 harvest of 361 million tons and reached the 200,000-ton mark onward Feb. 27, and 300,000 onward March 29. "Industrial ...