根本的な原因は投資の不足による機材更新不足と経済制裁からの燃料不足といったところですか。
BBC Cuba laments collapse of iconic sugar industry 4 days ago
By Will Grant
人力でなんぼ刈り取っても、そりゃあはかいかないものである。圧搾機は動力を必要としますしねえ。
19世紀の圧搾機を使ってるとか―
「Inside Ciudad Caracas, a 19th-Century sugar mill near Cienfuegos, the air is thick with the overpowering smell of molasses.」
そりゃあ…かなりの無理です…。
「The men of the Yumuri sugar co-operative in Cuba have worked the cane fields around the city of Cienfuegos since they were old enough to wield a machete.
Cutting cane is all Miguel Guzmán has ever known. He comes from a family of farm hands and started the tough, thankless work as a teenager.
For hundreds of years, sugar was the mainstay of the Cuban economy. It was not just the island's main export but also the cornerstone of another national industry, rum.」
ソ連の輸入割当でだいぶ助かってた時代もあった―って、だいぶ前ですよそれ。そして今や、2019年には130万トンも産出できていた佐藤が、昨年は35万トン規模に。ああ、それじゃあラム酒を作るにもかなりの難が。
「Today, though, he readily admits he has never seen the sugar industry as broken and depressed as it is now - not even when the Soviet Union's lucrative sugar quotas dried up after the Cold War.」
「Last season, Cuba's production fell to just 350,000 tonnes of raw sugar, an all-time low for the country, and well below the 1.3 million tonnes recorded in 2019.」
ラムは19世紀くらいの産出量しかないと。
「The slump in sugar has serious implications for other parts of the Cuban economy, he argues, including on its export earnings from rum. "We're producing the same quantity of sugar Cuba produced in the middle of the 19th Century."」
「Years of chronic mismanagement and underinvestment have also wrecked the once-thriving industry. Today, sugar receives less than 3% of state investment as the Cuban government backs tourism as its main economic motor instead.」
手っ取り早く政府歳入を増やすには―観光客を呼び込むか。なるほどそれは分かりやすく、先進諸国の人々は、へたすりゃ100年前の機械が現役で動いている姿を見て大喜びだ。うん、僕もその手の同人誌に接したことがある。とはいえそういうニーズはそう大きなものではなく、観光立国は―国民皆が食えるようなものじゃないよねえ…。
…人口を吸引する、なんらかの製造業を要するのだ。
BBC Cuba laments collapse of iconic sugar industry 4 days ago
By Will Grant
人力でなんぼ刈り取っても、そりゃあはかいかないものである。圧搾機は動力を必要としますしねえ。
19世紀の圧搾機を使ってるとか―
「Inside Ciudad Caracas, a 19th-Century sugar mill near Cienfuegos, the air is thick with the overpowering smell of molasses.」
そりゃあ…かなりの無理です…。
「The men of the Yumuri sugar co-operative in Cuba have worked the cane fields around the city of Cienfuegos since they were old enough to wield a machete.
Cutting cane is all Miguel Guzmán has ever known. He comes from a family of farm hands and started the tough, thankless work as a teenager.
For hundreds of years, sugar was the mainstay of the Cuban economy. It was not just the island's main export but also the cornerstone of another national industry, rum.」
ソ連の輸入割当でだいぶ助かってた時代もあった―って、だいぶ前ですよそれ。そして今や、2019年には130万トンも産出できていた佐藤が、昨年は35万トン規模に。ああ、それじゃあラム酒を作るにもかなりの難が。
「Today, though, he readily admits he has never seen the sugar industry as broken and depressed as it is now - not even when the Soviet Union's lucrative sugar quotas dried up after the Cold War.」
「Last season, Cuba's production fell to just 350,000 tonnes of raw sugar, an all-time low for the country, and well below the 1.3 million tonnes recorded in 2019.」
ラムは19世紀くらいの産出量しかないと。
「The slump in sugar has serious implications for other parts of the Cuban economy, he argues, including on its export earnings from rum. "We're producing the same quantity of sugar Cuba produced in the middle of the 19th Century."」
「Years of chronic mismanagement and underinvestment have also wrecked the once-thriving industry. Today, sugar receives less than 3% of state investment as the Cuban government backs tourism as its main economic motor instead.」
手っ取り早く政府歳入を増やすには―観光客を呼び込むか。なるほどそれは分かりやすく、先進諸国の人々は、へたすりゃ100年前の機械が現役で動いている姿を見て大喜びだ。うん、僕もその手の同人誌に接したことがある。とはいえそういうニーズはそう大きなものではなく、観光立国は―国民皆が食えるようなものじゃないよねえ…。
…人口を吸引する、なんらかの製造業を要するのだ。
